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 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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Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.
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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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Anybody who perceives colors can become a painter. It’s simply a question of whether or not one has felt anything and whether one has the courage to recount the things one has felt.
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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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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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The camera will never compete with the brush and the palette, until such time as photographs can be taken in Heaven or Hell.
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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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A work of art comes only from inside a human being.
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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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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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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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Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.
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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 don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.
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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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In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color.
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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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Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.
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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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I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.
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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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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
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By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life.
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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 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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