My breakthrough came very late in life, really only starting when I was 50. I had the strength for new deeds and ideas.
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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A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.
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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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Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
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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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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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Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.
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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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And I would often wake up at night and stare widely into the room: Am I in Hell?
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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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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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When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
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There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.
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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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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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It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.
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