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Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls.

Edvard Munch

Photography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
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Art Blood Heart Oneself Photography Touch
Art comes from joy and pain, But mostly from pain.
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Art Creation Joy Pain
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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Available Complete Consider Fund Room Wrong
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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Experience Myself Note Ordinary Poem
All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart’s blood. Art is your heart’s blood.
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Art Blood Heart Literature Yourself
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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Childhood Feeling Hang Head Punishment
Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.
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Disease Follow Insane Life Man
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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Anxiety Art Expression Feeling Remember Suffering
Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.
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Boat Disease Fear Life Myself
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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Art Life Meaning Myself Reflection
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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Build Distract Kind Model Myself Painting
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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Emotion Oneself Paint See Strength
Any number of holier-than-thou honorable realists walk around in the belief that they have accomplished something, simply because they tell you for the hundredth time that a field is green and a red-painted house is painted red.
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Accomplishment Belief Holy Honor Walk
There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.
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Battle Love Man Woman
I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.
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Myself Paint See
It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.
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Art Better Goodness Painting

Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls.

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