Edvard Munch Quotes on pain

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

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

By: Edvard Munch

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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... view

By: Edvard Munch

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

By: Edvard Munch

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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... view

By: Edvard Munch

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

By: Edvard Munch

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No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love... view

By: Edvard Munch

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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... view

By: Edvard Munch

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Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light... view

By: Edvard Munch

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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... view

By: Edvard Munch

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

By: Edvard Munch

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