I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked.
EDVARD MUNCHPhotography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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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 painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.
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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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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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The Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories – those with talent are fed in at one end, and they come out as mechanical painting machines.
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Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.
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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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If what you want to paint is the emotive mood in all its strength then you must not sit and stare at everything and depict it exactly as one sees it.
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Photography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
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Art comes from joy and pain, But mostly from pain.
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My will exceeds my talents.
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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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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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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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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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