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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.

Edvard Munch

Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
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Art Development Style Technique
I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.
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Color Myself Painting Photograph
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
Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.
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Accomplishment Fear Myself Sick
The way one sees is also dependent upon one’s emotional state of mind. This is why a motif can be looked at in so many ways, and this is what makes art so interesting.
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Art Interesting Mindset Myself See Sight Way
Photography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
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Art Blood Heart Oneself Photography Touch
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
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
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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Experiment Greatness Height Paint Sales Thinking
My breakthrough came very late in life, really only starting when I was 50. I had the strength for new deeds and ideas.
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Ideas Life Myself Start Strength
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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Children Dangerous Hell Learning Misery Sin
Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.
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Boat Disease Fear Life Myself
Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.
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Color Oneself
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
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

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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