Certainly a chair can be just as interesting as a human being. But first the chair must be perceived by a human being… You should not paint the chair, but only what someone has felt about it.
EDVARD MUNCHNature is not only all that is visible to the eye. it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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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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This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer’s art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution.
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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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My will exceeds my talents.
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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 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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Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
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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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Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
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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 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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Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.
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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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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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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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