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.
EDVARD MUNCHI do not paint what I see, but what I saw.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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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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I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.
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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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I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.
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Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
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Art comes from joy and pain, But mostly from pain.
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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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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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One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.
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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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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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Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my 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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Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.
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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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