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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.

Edvard Munch

When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
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Enemy Finding Goodness Painting Person Portrait
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 anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.
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Anxiety Myself Ship Sick
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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Architecture Frame Intention Room
I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.
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Art Believe Born Heart Man Need Open
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
There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.
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Battle Love Man Woman
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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Art Interesting Mindset Myself See Sight Way
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
Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.
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Color Oneself
My will exceeds my talents.
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Inspirational Talent Willing
Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness.
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Detail Empty Memories Painting Photograph Simplicity
And I would often wake up at night and stare widely into the room: Am I in Hell?
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Hell Myself Room Stare Wake Up
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
Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
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Art Development Style Technique
Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.
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Accomplishment Fear Myself Sick

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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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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