Any number of holier-than-thou honorable realists walk around in the belief that they have accomplished something, simply because they tell you for the hundredth time that a field is green and a red-painted house is painted red.
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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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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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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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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A work of art comes only from inside a human being.
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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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The viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church.
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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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Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.
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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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Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.
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Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.
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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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My will exceeds my talents.
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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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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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