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 sense a scream passing through nature. I painted the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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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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It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it.
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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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Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
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Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.
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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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One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.
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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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Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
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Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.
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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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The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.
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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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When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
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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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