Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.
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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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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In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color.
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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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The Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories – those with talent are fed in at one end, and they come out as mechanical painting machines.
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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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Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.
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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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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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Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.
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My breakthrough came very late in life, really only starting when I was 50. I had the strength for new deeds and ideas.
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It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.
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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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I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.
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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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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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