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.
EDVARD MUNCHI 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.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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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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It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it.
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Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
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Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.
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For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.
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I was walking along the road with two friends. The sun set. I felt a tinge of melancholy. Suddenly the sky became a bloody red. I stood there, trembling with fright. And I felt a loud, unending scream piercing nature.
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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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Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye. it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
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Photography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
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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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My will exceeds my talents.
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When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
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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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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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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
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