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.
EDVARD MUNCHWhen I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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A work of art comes only from inside a human being.
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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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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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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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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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In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color.
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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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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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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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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 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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Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.
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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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