In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color.
EDVARD MUNCHI was walking along the road with two friends. The sun set. I felt a tinge of melancholy. Suddenly the sky became a bloody red. I stood there, trembling with fright. And I felt a loud, unending scream piercing nature.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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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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Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.
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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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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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Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.
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Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
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When I paint, I never think of selling. People simply fail to understand that we paint in order to experiment and to develop ourselves as we strive for greater heights.
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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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Photography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
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I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked.
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No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
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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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What is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives.
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It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it.
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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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