Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness.
EDVARD MUNCHAll art, literature, and music must be born in your heart’s blood. Art is your heart’s blood.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.
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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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Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.
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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
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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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My will exceeds my talents.
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And I would often wake up at night and stare widely into the room: Am I in Hell?
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I build a kind of wall between myself and t he model so that I can paint in peace behind it. Otherwise, she might say something that confuses and distracts me.
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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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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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In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color.
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But can they great works get rid of the worm that lies gnawing at the roots of my heart? No, never.
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Anybody who perceives colors can become a painter. It’s simply a question of whether or not one has felt anything and whether one has the courage to recount the things one has felt.
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Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.
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By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life.
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Certainly a chair can be just as interesting as a human being. But first the chair must be perceived by a human being… You should not paint the chair, but only what someone has felt about it.
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Photography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
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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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Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls.
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Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.
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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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A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.
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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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Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.
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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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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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