I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.
EDVARD MUNCHIt was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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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.
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Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.
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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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Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.
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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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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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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.
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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
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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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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.
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Photography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
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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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Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.
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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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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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