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.
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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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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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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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
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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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What is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives.
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Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
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Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.
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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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Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls.
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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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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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Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.
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The camera will never compete with the brush and the palette, until such time as photographs can be taken in Heaven or Hell.
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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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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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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 have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.
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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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Photography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
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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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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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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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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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This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer’s art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution.
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The viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church.
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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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