My breakthrough came very late in life, really only starting when I was 50. I had the strength for new deeds and ideas.
EDVARD MUNCHI have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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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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It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.
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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
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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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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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Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.
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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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Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.
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Art comes from joy and pain, But mostly from pain.
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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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Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.
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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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Anybody who perceives colors can become a painter. It’s simply a question of whether or not one has felt anything and whether one has the courage to recount the things one has felt.
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Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.
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Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.
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