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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.

Edvard Munch

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.
EDVARD MUNCH

Detail Empty Memories Painting Photograph Simplicity
The camera will never compete with the brush and the palette, until such time as photographs can be taken in Heaven or Hell.
EDVARD MUNCH

Art Camera Complete Heaven Hell Photograph Tools
Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls.
EDVARD MUNCH

Artist Human Myself Soul Try
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.
EDVARD MUNCH

Academics Art Factory Greatness Painting Talent
One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.
EDVARD MUNCH

Creation Easy Painting Sculptor
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
EDVARD MUNCH

Flower Forever Growth Myself
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.
EDVARD MUNCH

Feeling Human Interest Painting Yourself
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 MUNCH

Friendship Loud Myself Pierce Road Scream Walk
The viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church.
EDVARD MUNCH

Painting Removal Understand View
Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.
EDVARD MUNCH

Accomplishment Fear Myself Sick
Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.
EDVARD MUNCH

Color Oneself
Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
EDVARD MUNCH

Art Development Style Technique
And I would often wake up at night and stare widely into the room: Am I in Hell?
EDVARD MUNCH

Hell Myself Room Stare Wake Up
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.
EDVARD MUNCH

Art Brain Eyes Interior Man Work
Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.
EDVARD MUNCH

Anxiety Myself Ship Sick
I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.
EDVARD MUNCH

Myself Paint See

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