And I would often wake up at night and stare widely into the room: Am I in Hell?
EDVARD MUNCHFrom my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.
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Certainly 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.
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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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Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.
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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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There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.
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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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Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.
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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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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
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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 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.
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I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked.
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Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.
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My will exceeds my talents.
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