I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man’s urge to open his heart.
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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By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life.
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I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for its accommodation and the funds for its completion were available.
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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
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Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.
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My will exceeds my talents.
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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 sense a scream passing through nature. I painted the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked.
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Art comes from joy and pain, But mostly from pain.
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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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Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.
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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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I find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as Christians, or at any rate many religious people, conceive it, believing that the conversations with relatives and friends interrupted here on earth will be continued in the hereafter.
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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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I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell.
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Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.
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