When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
EDVARD MUNCHI find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as Christians, or at any rate many religious people, conceive it, believing that the conversations with relatives and friends interrupted here on earth will be continued in the hereafter.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose.
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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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A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.
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Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.
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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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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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Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.
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It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it.
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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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Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.
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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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Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye. it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
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Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
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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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The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.
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