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.
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 do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man’s urge to open his heart.
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Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.
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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
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I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.
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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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Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.
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A work of art comes only from inside a human being.
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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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A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.
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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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I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.
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The way one sees is also dependent upon one’s emotional state of mind. This is why a motif can be looked at in so many ways, and this is what makes art so interesting.
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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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Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
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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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