And I would often wake up at night and stare widely into the room: Am I in Hell?
EDVARD MUNCHThe way one sees is also dependent upon one’s emotional state of mind. This is why a motif can be looked at in so many ways, and this is what makes art so interesting.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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A work of art can only come from the interior of man. Art is the form of the image formed upon the nerves, heart, brain and eye of man.
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My will exceeds my talents.
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Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.
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Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye. it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
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I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.
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If what you want to paint is the emotive mood in all its strength then you must not sit and stare at everything and depict it exactly as one sees it.
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I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.
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This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer’s art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution.
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My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are? My art gives meaning to my life.
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What is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives.
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For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.
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I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.
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The viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church.
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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
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Through my art I have tried to explain my life and its meaning. I have also intended to help others to clarify their lives.
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I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for its accommodation and the funds for its completion were available.
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Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.
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All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart’s blood. Art is your heart’s blood.
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When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
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Any number of holier-than-thou honorable realists walk around in the belief that they have accomplished something, simply because they tell you for the hundredth time that a field is green and a red-painted house is painted red.
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I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.
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One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.
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There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.
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In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in Hell hanging over my head.
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The camera will never compete with the brush and the palette, until such time as photographs can be taken in Heaven or Hell.
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I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man’s urge to open his heart.
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