A work of art can only come from the interior of man. Art is the form of the image formed upon the nerves, heart, brain and eye of man.
EDVARD MUNCHDeath is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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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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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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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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Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.
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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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I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.
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Photography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
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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.
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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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Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
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There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.
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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
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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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A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.
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Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.
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