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In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color.

Edvard Munch

Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.
EDVARD MUNCH

Anxiety Myself Ship Sick
It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it.
EDVARD MUNCH

Architecture Frame Intention Room
Art comes from joy and pain, But mostly from pain.
EDVARD MUNCH

Art Creation Joy Pain
All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart’s blood. Art is your heart’s blood.
EDVARD MUNCH

Art Blood Heart Literature Yourself
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.
EDVARD MUNCH

Art Interesting Mindset Myself See Sight Way
Photography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
EDVARD MUNCH

Art Blood Heart Oneself Photography Touch
Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.
EDVARD MUNCH

Accomplishment Fear Myself Sick
In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color.
EDVARD MUNCH

Art Color Fall Interest Myself Rise
I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.
EDVARD MUNCH

Color Myself Painting Photograph
Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls.
EDVARD MUNCH

Artist Human Myself Soul Try
Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.
EDVARD MUNCH

Darkness Death Light Painting Work
The viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church.
EDVARD MUNCH

Painting Removal Understand View
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.
EDVARD MUNCH

Children Dangerous Hell Learning Misery Sin
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.
EDVARD MUNCH

Build Distract Kind Model Myself Painting
A work of art comes only from inside a human being.
EDVARD MUNCH

Art Human Work
Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.
EDVARD MUNCH

Painting People Prosperity Talent Youth

In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color.

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