Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.
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.
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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Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.
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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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This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer’s art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution.
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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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Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.
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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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I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.
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I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.
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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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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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No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
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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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My will exceeds my talents.
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