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Edvard Munch Quotes

Total quotes: 9
“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.”
— Edvard Munch
Tagged: Painting, Men, Woomen, realistic, Life
“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.”
— Edvard Munch
Tagged: Body, Decay, beauty, Flowers, Death
“My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are? ..my art gives meaning to my life.”
— Edvard Munch, Edvard Munch: Psyche, Symbol and Expression
Tagged: Art, Roots, Reflection, Uniqueness, difference, Meaning, Life
“When I write these notes, it is not to describe my own life. I am writing a study of the soul as I observe myself closely and use myself as an anatomical testing-ground. It would therefore be wrong to look on these notes as confessions.”
— Edvard Munch
Tagged: Writing, notes, Life, Study, Soul, Observations
“I am at work on a girl. It is quite simple a girl getting up on the edge of her bed and pulling on her stockings. The bed is whitish, and in addition there are white sheets, a white nightdress, a bedside table with a white cover, white curtains and a blue wall.”
— Edvard Munch, In his letter to Olav Paulsen
Tagged: Painting, Girl, Art, Work
“My afflictions belong to me and my art - they have become one with me. Without illness and anxiety, I would have been a rudderless ship.. .My art is really a voluntary confession and an attempt to explain to myself my relationship with life - it is, therefore, actually a sort of egoism, but I am constantly hoping that through this I can help others achieve clarity.”
— Edvard Munch
Tagged: Afflictions, Art, Illness, Anxiety, Confession, Life, Egoism, Clarity
“One sunny spring day I heard the music coming down Karl Johan [street] and it filled me with joy. The spring, the sun, the music, all blended together to make me shiver with pleasure. The music added colour to the colours. I painted the picture allowing the colours to reverberate with the rhythm of the music. I painted the colours as I saw them at that moment.”
— Edvard Munch
Tagged: Music, Colors, Painting, bliss
“One evening I came to have a discussion with my father on the subject how long unbelievers are tormented in Hell. I maintained that no sinner could be so guilty that God would let him suffer longer than a thousand years. Father said that they would suffer for a thousand times a thousand years. We would not give up the argument. I became so irritated.. .I returned home to make my piece with him. He had gone to bed so I quietly opened his bedroom door. He was on his knees in front of the bed, praying.. .I closed the door and went to my own room but I could not get to sleep.. ..eventually I took out my drawing block and started to draw. I drew my father kneeling by his bed, with the light from the bedside lamp casting a yellow glow over his nightshirt. I fetched my paintbox and colored it in. Finally I achieved the right pictorial effect, and I was able to go to bed happy and slept soundly.”
— Edvard Munch
Tagged: Discussion, argument, Painting, drawing, Sketch
“Realism's 'truth' as embodied in painting and literature now solely consists of things capable of being seen by the eye or heard by the ear. Realism is concerned only with the external shell of nature. People content with the discoveries they have made ignore the fact that there are other things to be discovered, even broader avenues to be explored. They have found bacteria, but not what they consist of.”
— Edvard Munch
Tagged: Realism, Truth, Discoveries
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