I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.
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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Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.
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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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One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.
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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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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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I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.
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Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
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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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Art comes from joy and pain, But mostly from pain.
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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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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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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.
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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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Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.
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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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