Edvard Munch Quotes - Page 2

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• My whole life has been spent walking by the side of a bottomless chasm, jumping from stone to stone. Sometimes I try to leave my narrow path and join the swirling mainstream of life, but I always find myself drawn inexorably back towards the chasm's edge, and there I shall walk until the day I finally fall into the abyss.

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  Fall, Jumping, Trying

  Ragna Thiis Stang, Edvard Munch (1979). “Edvard Munch: The Man and the Artist”

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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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  Painting, Holes, Ten

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• Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.

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  Courage, Would Be, Disease

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• And I would often wake up at night and stare widely into the room: Am I in Hell?

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  Night, Wake Up, Rooms

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• The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.

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  Heart, Artist, Men

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• I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.

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  Artist, Color, Saws

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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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  Fear, Sky, Two Friends

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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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  Thinking, Order, People

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• Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.

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  Color, Canvas, Remarkable

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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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  Mother, Punishment, Sick

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• My breakthrough came very late in life, really only starting when I was 50...I had the strength for new deeds and ideas.

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  Ideas, Age, Deeds

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• Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness.

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  Memories, Eye, Artist

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• Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.

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  Artist, Color, Clash

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• The camera will never compete with the brush and the palette, until such time as photographs can be taken in Heaven or Hell.

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  Photography, Taken, Heaven

  "Edvard Munch: The Man and the Artist".

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• 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, and death stood by my side since the day I was born.

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  Religious, Father, Angel

  Edvard Munch, Peter Russell (2017). “Delphi Complete Paintings of Edvard Munch (Illustrated)”, p.10, Delphi Classics

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• Certainly a chair can be just as interesting as a human being. But first the chair must be perceived by a human being... You should not paint the chair, but only what someone has felt about it.

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  Interesting, Firsts, Paint

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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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  Christian, Religious, Believe

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• 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 either laughed or shook their heads reproachfully. They do not believe that these impressions, these instant sensations, could contain even the smallest grain of sanity. If a tree is red or blue, or a face is blue or green, they are sure that is insanity.

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  Believe, Blue, Years

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• Photography is an art which touches and grips one's own heart's blood.

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  Photography, Art, Heart

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• If what you want to paint is the emotive mood in all its strength... then you must not sit and stare at everything and depict it exactly as one sees it.

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  Want, Mood, Paint

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• 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 Hell.

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  Children, Artist, Punishment

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• When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.

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  Artist, Enemy, Portraits

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• I have been given a unique role to play on this earth: given to me by a life filled with sickness, ill-starred circumstances and my profession as an artist. It is a life that contains nothing that resembles happiness, and moreover does not even desire happiness.

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  Artist, Unique, Play

  Edvard Munch (1986). “Encounter in Space: Double Images in the Graphic Art of Edvard Munch”

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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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  Photography, Long, Heaven

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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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  Art, Emotional, Interesting

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