A work of art comes only from inside a human being.
EDVARD MUNCHPhotography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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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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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
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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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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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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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Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
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Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.
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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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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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I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.
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Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.
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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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When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
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When I paint, I never think of selling. People simply fail to understand that we paint in order to experiment and to develop ourselves as we strive for greater heights.
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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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