Edvard Munch Quotes

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• The viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church.
• A work of art comes only from inside a human being.
• I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted ... the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked.
• I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.
• The camera will never compete with the brush and palette until such time as photography can be taken to Heaven or Hell.
• It would be quite amusing to preach a bit to all those people who for many years now have been looking at our paintings and…
• At different moments you see with different eyes. You see differently in the morning than you do in the evening. In addition, how you see…
• 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…
• I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man's urge to open his heart
• In my art I have tried to explain to myself life and its meaning. I have also tried to help others to clarify their lives.
• I was walking down the road with two friends when the sun set; suddenly, the sky turned as red as blood. I stopped and leaned…
• A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.
• Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.
• 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…
• 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…
• I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in…
• My father was temperamentally nervous and obsessively religious—to the point of psychoneurosis. From him I inherited the seeds of madness. The angels of fear, sorrow,…
• I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.
• I was walking along a road one evening – on one side lay the city, and below me was the fjord. The sun went down…
• In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color

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