Through my art I have tried to explain my life and its meaning. I have also intended to help others to clarify their lives.
EDVARD MUNCHI 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.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye. it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
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It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.
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Art comes from joy and pain, But mostly from pain.
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Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout 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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Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.
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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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Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls.
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When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
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I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.
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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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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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Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
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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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