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.
EDVARD MUNCHAnd I would often wake up at night and stare widely into the room: Am I in Hell?
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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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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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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And I would often wake up at night and stare widely into the room: Am I in Hell?
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I was walking along the road with two friends. The sun set. I felt a tinge of melancholy. Suddenly the sky became a bloody red. I stood there, trembling with fright. And I felt a loud, unending scream piercing nature.
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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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Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.
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My will exceeds my talents.
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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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Photography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
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Art comes from joy and pain, But mostly from pain.
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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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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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When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
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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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When I paint, I never think of selling. People simply fail to understand that we paint in order to experiment and to develop ourselves as we strive for greater heights.
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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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I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.
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Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
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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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Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.
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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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I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked.
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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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Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
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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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