Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.
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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Art comes from joy and pain, But mostly from pain.
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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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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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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 believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man’s urge to open his heart.
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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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I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.
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In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in Hell hanging over my head.
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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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Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.
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Anybody who perceives colors can become a painter. It’s simply a question of whether or not one has felt anything and whether one has the courage to recount the things one has felt.
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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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I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.
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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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What is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives.
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The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose.
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No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
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I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.
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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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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.
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Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.
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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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The camera will never compete with the brush and the palette, until such time as photographs can be taken in Heaven or Hell.
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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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Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye. it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
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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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