My will exceeds my talents.
EDVARD MUNCHIn common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
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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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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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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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There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.
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Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.
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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 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 painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.
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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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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.
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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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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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Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.
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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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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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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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Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye. it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
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Certainly a chair can be just as interesting as a human being. But first the chair must be perceived by a human being… You should not paint the chair, but only what someone has felt about it.
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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 rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.
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Photography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
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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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What is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives.
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Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness.
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