Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls.
EDVARD MUNCHAny number of holier-than-thou honorable realists walk around in the belief that they have accomplished something, simply because they tell you for the hundredth time that a field is green and a red-painted house is painted red.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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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 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 viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church.
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I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.
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If what you want to paint is the emotive mood in all its strength then you must not sit and stare at everything and depict it exactly as one sees it.
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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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My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are? My art gives meaning to my life.
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Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.
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Art comes from joy and pain, But mostly from pain.
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Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye. it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
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I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.
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All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart’s blood. Art is your heart’s blood.
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I find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as Christians, or at any rate many religious people, conceive it, believing that the conversations with relatives and friends interrupted here on earth will be continued in the hereafter.
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It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.
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Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.
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