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All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart’s blood. Art is your heart’s blood.

Edvard Munch

When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
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Enemy Finding Goodness Painting Person Portrait
Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
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Canvas Color Live
I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.
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Fear Heaven Hell Photography
I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.
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Art Believe Born Heart Man Need Open
One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.
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Creation Easy Painting Sculptor
If what you want to paint is the emotive mood in all its strength then you must not sit and stare at everything and depict it exactly as one sees it.
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Emotion Oneself Paint See Strength
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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Childhood Feeling Hang Head Punishment
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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Art Life Meaning Myself Reflection
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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Art Interesting Mindset Myself See Sight Way
The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.
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Heart Man Rich Steal
Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.
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Accomplishment Fear Myself Sick
Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
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Art Development Style Technique
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
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Flower Forever Growth Myself
Art comes from joy and pain, But mostly from pain.
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Art Creation Joy Pain
All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart’s blood. Art is your heart’s blood.
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Art Blood Heart Literature Yourself
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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Experience Myself Note Ordinary Poem

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