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.
EDVARD MUNCHFor as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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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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I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for its accommodation and the funds for its completion were available.
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Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.
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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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A work of art comes only from inside a human being.
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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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And I would often wake up at night and stare widely into the room: Am I in Hell?
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The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose.
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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.
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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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It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.
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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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I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked.
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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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A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.
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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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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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There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.
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Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
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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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Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.
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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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Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.
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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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Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.
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