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.
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
-
-
Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.
EDVARD MUNCH -
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.
EDVARD MUNCH -
Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.
EDVARD MUNCH -
If what you want to paint is the emotive mood in all its strength then you must not sit and stare at everything and depict it exactly as one sees it.
EDVARD MUNCH -
A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.
EDVARD MUNCH -
I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.
EDVARD MUNCH -
Art comes from joy and pain, But mostly from pain.
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 -
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.
EDVARD MUNCH -
Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.
EDVARD MUNCH -
And I would often wake up at night and stare widely into the room: Am I in Hell?
EDVARD MUNCH -
Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls.
EDVARD MUNCH -
Photography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
EDVARD MUNCH -
I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.
EDVARD MUNCH -
Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
EDVARD MUNCH