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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

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
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
Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.
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Accomplishment Fear Myself Sick
Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.
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Painting People Prosperity Talent Youth
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
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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Art Clarify Explanation Life Live Myself
Art comes from joy and pain, But mostly from pain.
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Art Creation Joy Pain
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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Academics Art Factory Greatness Painting Talent
I was walking along the road with two friends. The sun set. I felt a tinge of melancholy. Suddenly the sky became a bloody red. I stood there, trembling with fright. And I felt a loud, unending scream piercing nature.
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Friendship Loud Myself Pierce Road Scream Walk
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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Painting Removal Understand View
There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.
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Battle Love Man Woman
It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.
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Art Better Goodness Painting
Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.
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Anxiety Myself Ship Sick
Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.
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Color Oneself
I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.
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Myself Paint See
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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Color Courage Feeling Oneself Paint Simplicity

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