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.
EDVARD MUNCHThere is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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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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There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.
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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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Through my art I have tried to explain my life and its meaning. I have also intended to help others to clarify their lives.
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Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.
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By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life.
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My will exceeds my talents.
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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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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
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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 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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One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.
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A work of art comes only from inside a human being.
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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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I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.
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