Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.
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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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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Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
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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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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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My will exceeds my talents.
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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 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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The way one sees is also dependent upon one’s emotional state of mind. This is why a motif can be looked at in so many ways, and this is what makes art so interesting.
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Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
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When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
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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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I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.
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Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.
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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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There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.
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