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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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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When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
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My will exceeds my talents.
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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
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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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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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It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.
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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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Art comes from joy and pain, But mostly from pain.
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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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Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.
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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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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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I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.
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