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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The way one sees is also dependent upon one’s emotional state of mind. This is why a motif can be looked at in so many ways, and this is what makes art so interesting.
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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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Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.
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And I would often wake up at night and stare widely into the room: Am I in Hell?
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Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.
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There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.
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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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The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.
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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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I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.
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The camera will never compete with the brush and the palette, until such time as photographs can be taken in Heaven or Hell.
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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 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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Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.
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Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
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