The viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church.
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 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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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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Photography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
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For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.
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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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Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.
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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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I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.
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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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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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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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A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.
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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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Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye. it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
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My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are? My art gives meaning to my life.
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