Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.
EDVARD MUNCHThis 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.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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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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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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A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.
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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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I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.
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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 illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.
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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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And I would often wake up at night and stare widely into the room: Am I in Hell?
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It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.
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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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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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Art comes from joy and pain, But mostly from pain.
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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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Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.
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