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.
EDVARD MUNCHI 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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Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.
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Art comes from joy and pain, But mostly from pain.
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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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No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
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I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.
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Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.
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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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I 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.
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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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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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Photography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
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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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I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.
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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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Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
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