Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.
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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Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye. it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
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Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
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Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
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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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And I would often wake up at night and stare widely into the room: Am I in Hell?
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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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I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked.
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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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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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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 build a kind of wall between myself and t he model so that I can paint in peace behind it. Otherwise, she might say something that confuses and distracts me.
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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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Art comes from joy and pain, But mostly from pain.
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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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