Quite Amusing Quotes by Edvard Munch

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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…
• At different moments you see with different eyes. You see differently in the morning than you do in the evening. In addition,…
• When I paint, I never think of selling. People simply fail to understand that we paint in order to experiment and to…
• 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…
• I was walking down the road with two friends when the sun set; suddenly, the sky turned as red as blood. I…
• A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.

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