Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls.
EDVARD MUNCHPainting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness.
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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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When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
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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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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.
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Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
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Photography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
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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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I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.
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Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.
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Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye. it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
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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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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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My will exceeds my talents.
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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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