I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.
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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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
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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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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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Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye. it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
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But can they great works get rid of the worm that lies gnawing at the roots of my heart? No, never.
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I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.
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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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Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.
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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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All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart’s blood. Art is your heart’s blood.
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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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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.
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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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There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.
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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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