I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.
EDVARD MUNCHIn 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.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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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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Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
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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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There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.
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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 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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What is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives.
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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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All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart’s blood. Art is your heart’s blood.
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I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.
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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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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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Art comes from joy and pain, But mostly from pain.
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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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It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.
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