It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.
EDVARD MUNCHA person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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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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Art comes from joy and pain, But mostly from pain.
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When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
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The camera will never compete with the brush and the palette, until such time as photographs can be taken in Heaven or Hell.
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I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked.
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I was walking along the road with two friends. The sun set. I felt a tinge of melancholy. Suddenly the sky became a bloody red. I stood there, trembling with fright. And I felt a loud, unending scream piercing nature.
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The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.
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Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.
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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
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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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Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
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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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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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I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.
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