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.
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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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 do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man’s urge to open his heart.
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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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My breakthrough came very late in life, really only starting when I was 50. I had the strength for new deeds and ideas.
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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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One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.
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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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Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.
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All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart’s blood. Art is your heart’s blood.
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My will exceeds my talents.
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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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Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
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No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
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