All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart’s blood. Art is your heart’s blood.
EDVARD MUNCHI 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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One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.
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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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There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.
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A work of art comes only from inside a human being.
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But can they great works get rid of the worm that lies gnawing at the roots of my heart? No, never.
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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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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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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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Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
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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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Any 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.
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What is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives.
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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 paint what I see, but what I saw.
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Art comes from joy and pain, But mostly from pain.
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