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All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart’s blood. Art is your heart’s blood.

Edvard Munch

The viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church.
EDVARD MUNCH

Painting Removal Understand View
I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man’s urge to open his heart.
EDVARD MUNCH

Art Believe Heart Myself Open
Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls.
EDVARD MUNCH

Artist Human Myself Soul Try
For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.
EDVARD MUNCH

Anxiety Art Expression Feeling Remember Suffering
Photography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
EDVARD MUNCH

Art Blood Heart Oneself Photography Touch
Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
EDVARD MUNCH

Canvas Color Live
The camera will never compete with the brush and the palette, until such time as photographs can be taken in Heaven or Hell.
EDVARD MUNCH

Art Camera Complete Heaven Hell Photograph Tools
I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked.
EDVARD MUNCH

Cloud Myself Nature Scream
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.
EDVARD MUNCH

Children Dangerous Hell Learning Misery Sin
Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.
EDVARD MUNCH

Accomplishment Fear Myself Sick
A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.
EDVARD MUNCH

Believe Goodness Himself Oneself Person
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 MUNCH

Accomplishment Belief Holy Honor Walk
Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.
EDVARD MUNCH

Darkness Death Light Painting Work
And I would often wake up at night and stare widely into the room: Am I in Hell?
EDVARD MUNCH

Hell Myself Room Stare Wake Up
One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.
EDVARD MUNCH

Creation Easy Painting Sculptor
My breakthrough came very late in life, really only starting when I was 50. I had the strength for new deeds and ideas.
EDVARD MUNCH

Ideas Life Myself Start Strength

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