Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.
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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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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Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
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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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My will exceeds my talents.
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I build a kind of wall between myself and t he model so that I can paint in peace behind it. Otherwise, she might say something that confuses and distracts me.
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Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.
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Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye. it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
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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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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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A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.
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In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in Hell hanging over my head.
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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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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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There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.
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