Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.
EDVARD MUNCHIf 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.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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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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Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.
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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
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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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It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.
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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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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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Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
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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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A work of art comes only from inside a human being.
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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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Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.
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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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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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Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls.
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