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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.

Edvard Munch

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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Children Dangerous Hell Learning Misery Sin
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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Breathe Love Paint Reading Suffering Woman
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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Art Life Meaning Myself Reflection
I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked.
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Cloud Myself Nature Scream
Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls.
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Artist Human Myself Soul Try
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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Childhood Feeling Hang Head Punishment
When 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.
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Experiment Greatness Height Paint Sales Thinking
A work of art comes only from inside a human being.
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Art Human Work
Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye. it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
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Eyes Nature Soul Visible
I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.
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Color Myself Painting Photograph
Art comes from joy and pain, But mostly from pain.
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Art Creation Joy Pain
There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.
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Battle Love Man Woman
Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.
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Anxiety Myself Ship Sick
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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Emotion Oneself Paint See Strength
One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.
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Creation Easy Painting Sculptor
Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.
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Color Oneself

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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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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