Lines Quote by Edvard Munch

“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.” quote by Edvard Munch — Download Open image

“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 sense a scream passing through nature. I painted ... the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked.

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