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.
EDVARD MUNCHThe viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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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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What is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives.
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But can they great works get rid of the worm that lies gnawing at the roots of my heart? No, never.
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In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color.
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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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A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.
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Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.
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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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The Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories – those with talent are fed in at one end, and they come out as mechanical painting machines.
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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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My will exceeds my talents.
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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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Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls.
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I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.
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Photography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
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