My will exceeds my talents.
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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Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
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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 person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.
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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.
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Photography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
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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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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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I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.
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What is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives.
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Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
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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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I find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as Christians, or at any rate many religious people, conceive it, believing that the conversations with relatives and friends interrupted here on earth will be continued in the hereafter.
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I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.
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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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Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.
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