Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.
EDVARD MUNCHDeath is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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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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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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What is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives.
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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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Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.
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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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Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.
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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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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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I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in 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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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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Photography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
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When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
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I find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as Christians, or at any rate many religious people, conceive it, believing that the conversations with relatives and friends interrupted here on earth will be continued in the hereafter.
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