But can they great works get rid of the worm that lies gnawing at the roots of my heart? No, never.
EDVARD MUNCHI painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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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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Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.
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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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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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Photography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
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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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My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are? My art gives meaning to my life.
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Art comes from joy and pain, But mostly from pain.
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Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.
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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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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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Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
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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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No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
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A work of art comes only from inside a human being.
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