From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
EDVARD MUNCHNo longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man’s urge to open his heart.
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I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.
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Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye. it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
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When I paint, I never think of selling. People simply fail to understand that we paint in order to experiment and to develop ourselves as we strive for greater heights.
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There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.
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Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls.
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My will exceeds my talents.
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The viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church.
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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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Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.
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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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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.
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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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My breakthrough came very late in life, really only starting when I was 50. I had the strength for new deeds and ideas.
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Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.
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