A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.
EDVARD MUNCHSome colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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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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Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye. it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
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It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.
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I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked.
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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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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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Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.
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Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.
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In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color.
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Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.
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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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My will exceeds my talents.
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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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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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Art comes from joy and pain, But mostly from pain.
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