My breakthrough came very late in life, really only starting when I was 50. I had the strength for new deeds and ideas.
EDVARD MUNCH
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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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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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Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness.
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I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell.
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This 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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What is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives.
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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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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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But can they great works get rid of the worm that lies gnawing at the roots of my heart? No, never.
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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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All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart’s blood. Art is your heart’s blood.
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I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for its accommodation and the funds for its completion were available.
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When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
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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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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.
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I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.
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Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
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