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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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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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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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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I 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.
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I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in 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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The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose.
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Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.
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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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The 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.
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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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My will exceeds my talents.
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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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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 anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.
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