My will exceeds my talents.
EDVARD MUNCHI do not paint what I see, but what I saw.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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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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Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls.
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There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.
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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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In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color.
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Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
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Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
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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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I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.
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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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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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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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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
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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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Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.
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