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.
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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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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In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color.
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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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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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When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
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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 painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.
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Photography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
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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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And I would often wake up at night and stare widely into the room: Am I in Hell?
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Art comes from joy and pain, But mostly from pain.
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Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
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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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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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