Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.
EDVARD MUNCHA person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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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.
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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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In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in Hell hanging over my head.
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I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.
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Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.
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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 art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are? My art gives meaning to my life.
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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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It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.
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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
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There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.
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Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.
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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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I find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as Christians, or at any rate many religious people, conceive it, believing that the conversations with relatives and friends interrupted here on earth will be continued in the hereafter.
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When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
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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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Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.
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Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
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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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Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.
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A work of art comes only from inside a human being.
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Anybody who perceives colors can become a painter. It’s simply a question of whether or not one has felt anything and whether one has the courage to recount the things one has felt.
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A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.
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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.
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I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.
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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.
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