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What is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives.

Edvard Munch

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye. it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
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Eyes Nature Soul Visible
Art comes from joy and pain, But mostly from pain.
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Art Creation Joy Pain
Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.
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Disease Follow Insane Life Man
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.
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Academics Art Factory Greatness Painting Talent
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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Art Interesting Mindset Myself See Sight Way
In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color.
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Art Color Fall Interest Myself Rise
The camera will never compete with the brush and the palette, until such time as photographs can be taken in Heaven or Hell.
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Art Camera Complete Heaven Hell Photograph Tools
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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Art Brain Eyes Interior Man Work
It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.
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Art Better Goodness Painting
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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Anxiety Art Expression Feeling Remember Suffering
A work of art comes only from inside a human being.
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Art Human Work
The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.
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Heart Man Rich Steal
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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Architecture Frame Intention Room
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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Ideas Life Myself Start Strength
I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.
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Myself Paint See
Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.
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Boat Disease Fear Life Myself

What is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives.

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