It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it.
EDVARD MUNCHWithout anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.
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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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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The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.
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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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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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Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.
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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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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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Photography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
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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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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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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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I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.
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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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Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.
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