One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.
EDVARD MUNCHThe 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.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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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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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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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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Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.
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My will exceeds my talents.
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Art comes from joy and pain, But mostly from pain.
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Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
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I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.
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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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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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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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The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.
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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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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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Photography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
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