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 MUNCHThe 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.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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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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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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I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.
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Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls.
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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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Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
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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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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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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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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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Photography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
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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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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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A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.
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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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