Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.
EDVARD MUNCHSome colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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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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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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Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
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A work of art comes only from inside a human being.
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When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
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I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man’s urge to open his heart.
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There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.
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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 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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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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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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I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.
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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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One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.
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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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In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in Hell hanging over my head.
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Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.
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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
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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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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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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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Art comes from joy and pain, But mostly from pain.
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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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Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
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Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.
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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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