But can they great works get rid of the worm that lies gnawing at the roots of my heart? No, never.
EDVARD MUNCHIf 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.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
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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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I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for its accommodation and the funds for its completion were available.
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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 person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.
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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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Photography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
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Art comes from joy and pain, But mostly from pain.
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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 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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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 do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man’s urge to open his heart.
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One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.
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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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