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 MUNCHAny 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.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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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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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 way one sees is also dependent upon one’s emotional state of mind. This is why a motif can be looked at in so many ways, and this is what makes art so interesting.
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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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Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.
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A work of art comes only from inside a human being.
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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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Photography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
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There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.
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Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
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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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Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.
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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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In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color.
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