Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.
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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I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked.
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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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A work of art comes only from inside a human being.
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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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Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.
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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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I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.
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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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Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
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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 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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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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I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.
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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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What is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives.
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