My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are? My art gives meaning to my life.
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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Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.
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When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
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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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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 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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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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Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness.
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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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Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.
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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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My breakthrough came very late in life, really only starting when I was 50. I had the strength for new deeds and ideas.
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Photography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
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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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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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A work of art comes only from inside a human being.
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