I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.
EDVARD MUNCH
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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 don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.
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When I paint, I never think of selling. People simply fail to understand that we paint in order to experiment and to develop ourselves as we strive for greater heights.
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My will exceeds my talents.
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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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Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.
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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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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 have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in 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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There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.
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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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It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.
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I find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as Christians, or at any rate many religious people, conceive it, believing that the conversations with relatives and friends interrupted here on earth will be continued in the hereafter.
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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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