From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
EDVARD MUNCH
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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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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
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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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It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.
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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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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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For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.
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Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
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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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My will exceeds my talents.
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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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A work of art comes only from inside a human being.
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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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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 learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell.
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