A work of art comes only from inside a human being.
EDVARD MUNCHOne can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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Photography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
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When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
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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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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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My will exceeds my talents.
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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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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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A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.
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Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls.
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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 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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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
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One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.
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And I would often wake up at night and stare widely into the room: Am I in Hell?
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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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