My will exceeds my talents.
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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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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Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.
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I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.
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Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
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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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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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Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.
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What is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives.
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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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Photography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
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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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In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color.
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The camera will never compete with the brush and the palette, until such time as photographs can be taken in Heaven or Hell.
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If what you want to paint is the emotive mood in all its strength then you must not sit and stare at everything and depict it exactly as one sees it.
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But can they great works get rid of the worm that lies gnawing at the roots of my heart? No, never.
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