Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edvard Munch

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

Edvard Munch

For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.

Edvard Munch

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

Edvard Munch

Art comes from joy and pain...But mostly from pain.

Edvard Munch

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.

Edvard Munch

I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted ... the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked.

Edvard Munch

I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man's urge to open his heart

Edvard Munch

In my art I have tried to explain to myself life and its meaning. I have also tried to help others to clarify their lives.

Edvard Munch

A work of art can only come from the interior of man. Art is the form of the image formed upon the nerves, heart, brain and eye of man.

Edvard Munch

A work of art comes only from inside a human being.

Edvard Munch

What is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives.

Edvard Munch

At different moments you see with different eyes. You see differently in the morning than you do in the evening. In addition, how you see is also dependent on your emotional state. Because of this, a motif can be seen in many different ways, and this is what makes art interesting.

Edvard Munch

My fear of life is necessary to me, as is my illness. Without anxiety and illness, I am a ship without a rudder. My art is grounded in reflections over being different from others. My sufferings are part of my self and my art. They are indistinguishable from me, and their destruction would destroy my art. I want to keep those sufferings

Edvard Munch

I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.

Edvard Munch

All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart's blood. Art is your heart's blood.

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

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.

Edsger Dijkstra

The art of programming is the art of organizing complexity.

Eduardo Galeano

I remember that - you know, I didnt receive a formal education. I was educated in the Montevideo cafe, in the cafes of Montevideo. There, I received my first lessons in the art of telling stories, storytelling.

Eduardo Galeano

Chaplin and Keaton are still the best. They know that there is nothing more serious than laughter, an art demanding infinite work, and that as long as the world revolves, making others laugh is the most splendid of activities.

Edward Abbey

Great art is indefinable but that's all right; it exists anyway.

Edward Abbey

Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent.

Edward Abbey

How did Haydn and Mozart produce such vast quantities of formally perfect art? They worked from a perfect formula. In music, Beethoven was the Great Emancipator.

Edward Abbey

All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.

Edward Abbey

The writer concerned more with technique than truth becomes a technician, not an artist.

Bill Watterson

If cartoonists would look at this more as an art than as a part time job or a get-rich-quick scheme, I think comics overall would be better. I think there's a tremendous potential to be tapped.

I feel like there is an underappreciation for ball gowns. You see them on the runway, but they rarely ever get worn, so there is something special and unique in getting to wear these creations; it's wearable art.

Zack Rocha

I feel that it is now necessary to leave Rage because our decision-making process has completely failed. It is no longer meeting the aspirations of all four of us collectively as a band, and from my perspective, has undermined our artistic and political ideal.

Ving Rhames

I feel that being an artist is about giving, and I'd like to give this to you, Mr. Jack Lemmon,

Will Eisner

I did not have the dreams that the other artists working with me had, of 'moving uptown,' becoming an illustrator or a gallery painter, or those others who said, 'I'm going to go uptown and be a writer, I'm going to work for The New Yorker one day and escape this ghetto.' For me, there was no escape.

James McCartney

I did art; I made furniture. I didn't want to be a cliche - the Beatle's son who became a musician.

Iggy Pop

I can't do it all myself. I'm not that kind of artist, I'm the kind of artist who works off other people best. It was like playing with Tinker toys or dominoes, trying to get all the pieces to fit like a jigsaw puzzle so I'd have a whole portrait but it would still have many facets.

Mike Bass

I can't say enough for what I learned at that point about the art of negotiation, about how state government really works, ... And in the end, it's not something that's all that abnormal. It's a process of compromise and consensus because for the budget to get done, you need that.