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I build a kind of wall between myself and t he model so that I can paint in peace behind it. Otherwise, she might say something that confuses and distracts me.

Edvard Munch

I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.
EDVARD MUNCH

Myself Paint See
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 MUNCH

Academics Art Factory Greatness Painting Talent
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.
EDVARD MUNCH

Children Dangerous Hell Learning Misery Sin
Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.
EDVARD MUNCH

Anxiety Myself Ship Sick
My breakthrough came very late in life, really only starting when I was 50. I had the strength for new deeds and ideas.
EDVARD MUNCH

Ideas Life Myself Start Strength
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.
EDVARD MUNCH

Available Complete Consider Fund Room Wrong
It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it.
EDVARD MUNCH

Architecture Frame Intention Room
Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.
EDVARD MUNCH

Boat Disease Fear Life Myself
All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart’s blood. Art is your heart’s blood.
EDVARD MUNCH

Art Blood Heart Literature Yourself
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.
EDVARD MUNCH

Color Courage Feeling Oneself Paint Simplicity
Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.
EDVARD MUNCH

Color Oneself
I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.
EDVARD MUNCH

Fear Heaven Hell Photography
Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.
EDVARD MUNCH

Accomplishment Fear Myself Sick
Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.
EDVARD MUNCH

Disease Follow Insane Life Man
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
EDVARD MUNCH

Flower Forever Growth Myself
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.
EDVARD MUNCH

Art Brain Eyes Interior Man Work

I build a kind of wall between myself and t he model so that I can paint in peace behind it. Otherwise, she might say something that confuses and distracts me.

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