The viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church.
EDVARD MUNCHThis 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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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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Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.
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Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
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I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man’s urge to open his heart.
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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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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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Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls.
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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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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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The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.
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In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in Hell hanging over my head.
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There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.
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A work of art comes only from inside a human being.
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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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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.
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