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There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.

Edvard Munch

Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
EDVARD MUNCH

Canvas Color Live
Certainly a chair can be just as interesting as a human being. But first the chair must be perceived by a human being… You should not paint the chair, but only what someone has felt about it.
EDVARD MUNCH

Feeling Human Interest Painting Yourself
Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.
EDVARD MUNCH

Disease Follow Insane Life Man
Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.
EDVARD MUNCH

Anxiety Myself Ship Sick
Anybody who perceives colors can become a painter. It’s simply a question of whether or not one has felt anything and whether one has the courage to recount the things one has felt.
EDVARD MUNCH

Color Courage Feeling Oneself Paint Simplicity
The Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories – those with talent are fed in at one end, and they come out as mechanical painting machines.
EDVARD MUNCH

Academics Art Factory Greatness Painting Talent
I find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as Christians, or at any rate many religious people, conceive it, believing that the conversations with relatives and friends interrupted here on earth will be continued in the hereafter.
EDVARD MUNCH

Conversation Difficult Finding Myself Religion
My will exceeds my talents.
EDVARD MUNCH

Inspirational Talent Willing
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.
EDVARD MUNCH

Art Brain Eyes Interior Man Work
It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.
EDVARD MUNCH

Art Better Goodness Painting
There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.
EDVARD MUNCH

Battle Love Man Woman
In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color.
EDVARD MUNCH

Art Color Fall Interest Myself Rise
Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye. it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
EDVARD MUNCH

Eyes Nature Soul Visible
Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
EDVARD MUNCH

Art Development Style Technique
But can they great works get rid of the worm that lies gnawing at the roots of my heart? No, never.
EDVARD MUNCH

Greatness Heart Lying Root Work
All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart’s blood. Art is your heart’s blood.
EDVARD MUNCH

Art Blood Heart Literature Yourself

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