I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.
EDVARD MUNCHBut can they great works get rid of the worm that lies gnawing at the roots of my heart? No, never.
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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In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color.
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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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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
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Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.
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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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A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.
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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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The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose.
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