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.
EDVARD MUNCHWhen 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.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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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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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
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Photography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
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Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.
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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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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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I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.
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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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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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I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked.
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Anybody who perceives colors can become a painter. It’s simply a question of whether or not one has felt anything and whether one has the courage to recount the things one has felt.
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This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer’s art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution.
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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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A work of art comes only from inside a human being.
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Art comes from joy and pain, But mostly from pain.
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