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.
EDVARD MUNCHSome colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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A work of art comes only from inside a human being.
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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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Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.
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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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One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.
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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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Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye. it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
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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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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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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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And I would often wake up at night and stare widely into the room: Am I in Hell?
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My will exceeds my talents.
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Photography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
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Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.
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I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.
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