A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.
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.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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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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I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.
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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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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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Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.
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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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What is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives.
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