The camera will never compete with the brush and the palette, until such time as photographs can be taken in Heaven or Hell.
EDVARD MUNCHWithout fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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Photography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
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Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
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Art comes from joy and pain, But mostly from pain.
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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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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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Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.
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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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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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It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.
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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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I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.
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Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.
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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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There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.
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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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