I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man’s urge to open his heart.
EDVARD MUNCH
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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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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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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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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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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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A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.
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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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Photography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
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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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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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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 is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.
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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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