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.
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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Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls.
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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
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Photography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
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Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.
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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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I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.
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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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I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.
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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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Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.
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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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My breakthrough came very late in life, really only starting when I was 50. I had the strength for new deeds and ideas.
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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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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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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.
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