Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.
EDVARD MUNCHCertainly 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.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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Art comes from joy and pain, But mostly from pain.
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Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.
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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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Photography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
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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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I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.
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The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose.
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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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My will exceeds my talents.
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Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.
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A work of art comes only from inside a human being.
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I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man’s urge to open his heart.
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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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One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.
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Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.
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