Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.
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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Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
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The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.
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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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Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.
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A work of art can only come from the interior of man. Art is the form of the image formed upon the nerves, heart, brain and eye of man.
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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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Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.
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Photography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
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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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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 sense a scream passing through nature. I painted the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked.
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Through my art I have tried to explain my life and its meaning. I have also intended to help others to clarify their lives.
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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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I find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as Christians, or at any rate many religious people, conceive it, believing that the conversations with relatives and friends interrupted here on earth will be continued in the hereafter.
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