There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.
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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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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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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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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Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.
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Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.
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Photography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
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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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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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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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I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.
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Certainly a chair can be just as interesting as a human being. But first the chair must be perceived by a human being… You should not paint the chair, but only what someone has felt about it.
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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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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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My will exceeds my talents.
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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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