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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

Through my art I have tried to explain my life and its meaning. I have also intended to help others to clarify their lives.
EDVARD MUNCH

Art Clarify Explanation Life Live Myself
One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.
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Creation Easy Painting Sculptor
When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
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Enemy Finding Goodness Painting Person Portrait
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
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
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
Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
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Canvas Color Live
Art comes from joy and pain, But mostly from pain.
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Art Creation Joy Pain
I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked.
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Cloud Myself Nature Scream
Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye. it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
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Eyes Nature Soul Visible
Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.
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Color Oneself
I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.
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Fear Heaven Hell Photography
Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.
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Accomplishment Fear Myself Sick
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
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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Art Brain Eyes Interior Man Work
My will exceeds my talents.
EDVARD MUNCH

Inspirational Talent Willing

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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