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.
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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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 painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.
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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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Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye. it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
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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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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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When I paint, I never think of selling. People simply fail to understand that we paint in order to experiment and to develop ourselves as we strive for greater heights.
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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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It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.
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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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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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I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.
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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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One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.
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No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
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When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
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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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There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.
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Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
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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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Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls.
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Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.
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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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Through my art I have tried to explain my life and its meaning. I have also intended to help others to clarify their lives.
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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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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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