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Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.

Edvard Munch

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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Childhood Feeling Hang Head Punishment
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.
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Breathe Love Paint Reading Suffering Woman
Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.
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Accomplishment Fear Myself Sick
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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Detail Empty Memories Painting Photograph Simplicity
Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.
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Color Oneself
I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.
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Color Myself Painting Photograph
The Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories – those with talent are fed in at one end, and they come out as mechanical painting machines.
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Academics Art Factory Greatness Painting Talent
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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Drawing Frame Kind Painting Revolution
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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Greatness Heart Lying Root Work
My will exceeds my talents.
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Inspirational Talent Willing
Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
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Canvas Color Live
I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.
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Fear Heaven Hell Photography
Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.
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Disease Follow Insane Life Man
Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
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Art Development Style Technique
Art comes from joy and pain, But mostly from pain.
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Art Creation Joy Pain
The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.
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Heart Man Rich Steal

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