There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.
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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Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls.
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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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Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
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The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose.
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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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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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By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life.
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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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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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Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye. it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
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My will exceeds my talents.
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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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The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.
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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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Anybody who perceives colors can become a painter. It’s simply a question of whether or not one has felt anything and whether one has the courage to recount the things one has felt.
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