Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
EDVARD MUNCHMy breakthrough came very late in life, really only starting when I was 50. I had the strength for new deeds and ideas.
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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My will exceeds my talents.
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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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Through my art I have tried to explain my life and its meaning. I have also intended to help others to clarify their lives.
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Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.
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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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Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls.
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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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I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.
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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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Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye. it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
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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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I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.
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For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.
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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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