I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.
EDVARD MUNCHIn common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color.
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Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.
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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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The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.
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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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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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In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color.
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Art comes from joy and pain, But mostly from pain.
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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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There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.
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A work of art can only come from the interior of man. Art is the form of the image formed upon the nerves, heart, brain and eye of man.
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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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And I would often wake up at night and stare widely into the room: Am I in Hell?
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Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
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I was walking along the road with two friends. The sun set. I felt a tinge of melancholy. Suddenly the sky became a bloody red. I stood there, trembling with fright. And I felt a loud, unending scream piercing nature.
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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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