In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color.
EDVARD MUNCHThe rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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A work of art comes only from inside a human being.
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Photography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
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Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
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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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I build a kind of wall between myself and t he model so that I can paint in peace behind it. Otherwise, she might say something that confuses and distracts me.
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I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked.
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Art comes from joy and pain, But mostly from pain.
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This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer’s art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution.
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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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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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Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye. it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
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Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
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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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A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.
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The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.
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