A work of art comes only from inside a human being.
EDVARD MUNCHCertainly 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.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and 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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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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But can they great works get rid of the worm that lies gnawing at the roots of my heart? No, never.
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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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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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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 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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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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What is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives.
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