Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.
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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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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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.
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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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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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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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Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls.
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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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Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.
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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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Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.
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I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.
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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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I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.
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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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It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.
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