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.
EDVARD MUNCHI 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.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart’s blood. Art is your heart’s blood.
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Art comes from joy and pain, But mostly from pain.
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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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Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls.
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Certainly a chair can be just as interesting as a human being. But first the chair must be perceived by a human being… You should not paint the chair, but only what someone has felt about it.
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Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
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Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.
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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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Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.
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I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.
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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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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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Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.
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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 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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