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.
EDVARD MUNCHI do not paint what I see, but what I saw.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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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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The camera will never compete with the brush and the palette, until such time as photographs can be taken in Heaven or Hell.
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But can they great works get rid of the worm that lies gnawing at the roots of my heart? No, never.
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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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When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
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This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer’s art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution.
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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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A work of art can only come from the interior of man. Art is the form of the image formed upon the nerves, heart, brain and eye of man.
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Art comes from joy and pain, But mostly from pain.
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The viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church.
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There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.
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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
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Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
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My will exceeds my talents.
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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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