Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.
EDVARD MUNCHMy will exceeds my talents.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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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 don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.
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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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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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Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.
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When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
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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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I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell.
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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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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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A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.
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A work of art comes only from inside a human being.
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Through my art I have tried to explain my life and its meaning. I have also intended to help others to clarify their lives.
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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 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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