Art comes from joy and pain, But mostly from pain.
EDVARD MUNCHAnybody 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.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
-
-
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.
EDVARD MUNCH -
My breakthrough came very late in life, really only starting when I was 50. I had the strength for new deeds and ideas.
EDVARD MUNCH -
I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell.
EDVARD MUNCH -
And I would often wake up at night and stare widely into the room: Am I in Hell?
EDVARD MUNCH -
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.
EDVARD MUNCH -
Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
EDVARD MUNCH -
In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color.
EDVARD MUNCH -
Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye. it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
EDVARD MUNCH -
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.
EDVARD MUNCH -
All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart’s blood. Art is your heart’s blood.
EDVARD MUNCH -
The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.
EDVARD MUNCH -
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.
EDVARD MUNCH -
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
EDVARD MUNCH -
Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.
EDVARD MUNCH -
Through my art I have tried to explain my life and its meaning. I have also intended to help others to clarify their lives.
EDVARD MUNCH