I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.
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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And I would often wake up at night and stare widely into the room: Am I in Hell?
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A work of art can only come from the interior of man. Art is the form of the image formed upon the nerves, heart, brain and eye of man.
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Photography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
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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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The viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church.
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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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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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In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color.
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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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It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.
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My will exceeds my talents.
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My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are? My art gives meaning to my life.
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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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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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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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