My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are? My art gives meaning to my life.
EDVARD MUNCHWithout fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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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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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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Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye. it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
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Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.
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Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.
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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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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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Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.
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Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.
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I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man’s urge to open his heart.
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Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
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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.
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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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Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls.
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One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.
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