Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.
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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I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for its accommodation and the funds for its completion were available.
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Certainly a chair can be just as interesting as a human being. But first the chair must be perceived by a human being… You should not paint the chair, but only what someone has felt about 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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One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.
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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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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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Photography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
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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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And I would often wake up at night and stare widely into the room: Am I in Hell?
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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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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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Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.
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In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in Hell hanging over my head.
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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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Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls.
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