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 MUNCHAny number of holier-than-thou honorable realists walk around in the belief that they have accomplished something, simply because they tell you for the hundredth time that a field is green and a red-painted house is painted red.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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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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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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Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.
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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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All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart’s blood. Art is your heart’s blood.
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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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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
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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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Anybody who perceives colors can become a painter. It’s simply a question of whether or not one has felt anything and whether one has the courage to recount the things one has felt.
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A work of art comes only from inside a human being.
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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 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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There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.
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I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell.
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