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.
EDVARD MUNCHAnd I would often wake up at night and stare widely into the room: Am I in Hell?
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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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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It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.
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I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.
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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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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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A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.
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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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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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When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
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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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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 painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.
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And I would often wake up at night and stare widely into the room: Am I in Hell?
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