One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.
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 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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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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There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.
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A work of art comes only from inside a human being.
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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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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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Certainly a chair can be just as interesting as a human being. But first the chair must be perceived by a human being… You should not paint the chair, but only what someone has felt about it.
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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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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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Art comes from joy and pain, But mostly from pain.
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All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart’s blood. Art is your heart’s blood.
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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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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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Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.
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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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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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Photography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
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I find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as Christians, or at any rate many religious people, conceive it, believing that the conversations with relatives and friends interrupted here on earth will be continued in the hereafter.
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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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Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.
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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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It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it.
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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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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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It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.
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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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