If what you want to paint is the emotive mood in all its strength then you must not sit and stare at everything and depict it exactly as one sees it.
EDVARD MUNCHThis 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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Photography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
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My breakthrough came very late in life, really only starting when I was 50. I had the strength for new deeds and ideas.
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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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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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When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
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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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The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.
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What is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives.
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Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
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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.
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Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.
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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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I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.
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Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
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