Edvard Munch Quotes - Page 3

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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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  Dark, Artist, Light

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• A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.

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  Believe, Artist, Portraits

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• 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 against the fence, feeling unspeakably tired. Tongues of fire and blood stretched over the bluish black fjord. My friends went on walking, while I lagged behind, shivering with fear. Then I heard the enormous infinite scream of nature.

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  Tired, Fire, Blood

  Edvard Munch, José María Faerna (1996). “Munch”, Harry N. Abrams

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• Anybody who perceives colors can become a painter. It's simply a question of whether or not one has felt anything and whether one has the courage to recount the things one has felt.

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  Color, Painter, Perceive

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• One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor

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  Artist, Painting, Chapel

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• To die is as if one's eyes had been put out and one cannot see anything any more. Perhaps it is like being shut in a cellar. One is abandoned by all. They have slammed the door and are gone. One does not see anything and notices only the damp smell of putrefaction.

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  Eye, Doors, Smell

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• Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have

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  Mental Health, Illness, Accomplished

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• Any number of holier-than-thou honorable realists walk around in the belief that they have accomplished something, simply because they tell you for the hundredth time that a field is green and a red-painted house is painted red.

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  Numbers, House, Green

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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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  Art, War, Hippie

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• In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color

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  Fall, Color, Lines

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• The Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories - those with talent are fed in at one end, and they come out as mechanical painting machines.

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  Education, Art, Machines

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• It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it.

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  Artist, Rooms, Intention

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• Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?

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  Artist, Oil, Technique

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• Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.

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  People, Youth, Paint

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• Your face encompasses the beauty of the whole earth. Your lips, as red as ripening fruit, gently part as if in pain. It is the smile of a corpse. Now the hand of death touches life. The chain is forged that links the thousand families that are dead to the thousand generations to come.

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  Pain, Hands, Generations

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

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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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  Should Have, Rooms, Accommodations

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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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  Color, Doe, Lines

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• The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose.

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  Spiritual, Ordinary, Diaries

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• 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 something that confuses and distracts me.

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  Wall, Artist, Might

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• But can they [great works] get rid of the worm that lies gnawing at the roots of my heart? No, never.

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  Lying, Heart, Roots

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• I was walking along a road one evening – on one side lay the city, and below me was the fjord. The sun went down – the clouds were stained red, as if with blood. I felt as though the whole of nature was screaming – it seemed as though I could hear a scream. I painted that picture, painting the clouds like real blood. The colours screamed.

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  Real, Clouds, Blood

  Edvard Munch, Elvira Maluquer, Caja de Pensiones para la Vejez y de Ahorros. Centre Cultural (1986). “Much: catàleg de l'exposició 1863-1944 : 27 de gener-22 de març, 1987”

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• I felt as if there were invisible threads connecting us - I felt the invisible strands of her hair still winding around me - and thus as she disappeared completely beyond the sea - I still felt it, felt the pain where my heart was bleeding - because the threads could not be severed.

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  Pain, Heart, Hair

  Edvard Munch, Klaus Albrecht Schröder, Antonia Hoerschelmann, Christoph Asendorf, Graphische Sammlung Albertina (2003). “Edvard Munch: theme and variation”

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