The colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
More Quotes from Edvard Munch:
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.Edvard Munch
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
Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.
Edvard Munch
A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.
Edvard Munch
We're still hopeful, but we are no longer that confident. The chances of finding the paintings diminish with time and already a lot of time has passed,
Edvard Munch
Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.
Edvard Munch
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