In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color.
EDVARD MUNCHI 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.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.
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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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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
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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 have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.
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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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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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Photography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
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Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
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The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.
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Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
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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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All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart’s blood. Art is your heart’s blood.
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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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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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