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.
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
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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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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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I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked.
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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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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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Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.
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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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There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.
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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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The Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories – those with talent are fed in at one end, and they come out as mechanical painting machines.
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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 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.
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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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All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart’s blood. Art is your heart’s blood.
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In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color.
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