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 MUNCHI sense a scream passing through nature. I painted the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.
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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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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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Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye. it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
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When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
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Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
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Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my 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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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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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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A work of art comes only from inside a human being.
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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 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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Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.
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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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