I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.
EDVARD MUNCHWithout fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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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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Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.
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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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Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.
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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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A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.
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There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.
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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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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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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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Any number of holier-than-thou honorable realists walk around in the belief that they have accomplished something, simply because they tell you for the hundredth time that a field is green and a red-painted house is painted red.
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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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Photography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
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No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
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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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