All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart’s blood. Art is your heart’s blood.
EDVARD MUNCHOne can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked.
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Photography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
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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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I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.
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There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.
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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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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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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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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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Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
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A work of art comes only from inside a human being.
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Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.
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Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.
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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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The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.
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