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.
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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In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color.
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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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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
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If 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.
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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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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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Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.
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There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.
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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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It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.
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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 person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.
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All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart’s blood. Art is your heart’s blood.
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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 was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it.
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