I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.
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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It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it.
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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 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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I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.
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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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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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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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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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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
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Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.
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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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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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Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
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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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Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.
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