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.
EDVARD MUNCHWithout fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
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By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life.
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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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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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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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Photography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
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My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are? My art gives meaning to my life.
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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 sense a scream passing through nature. I painted the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked.
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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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I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell.
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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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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
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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 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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