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 MUNCHMy breakthrough came very late in life, really only starting when I was 50. I had the strength for new deeds and ideas.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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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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One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.
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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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Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye. it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
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All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart’s blood. Art is your heart’s blood.
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It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it.
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And I would often wake up at night and stare widely into the room: Am I in Hell?
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Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
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Art comes from joy and pain, But mostly from pain.
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My will exceeds my talents.
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The camera will never compete with the brush and the palette, until such time as photographs can be taken in Heaven or Hell.
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Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
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Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.
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My breakthrough came very late in life, really only starting when I was 50. I had the strength for new deeds and ideas.
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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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