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Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.

Edvard Munch

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.
EDVARD MUNCH

Anxiety Art Expression Feeling Remember Suffering
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
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
Through my art I have tried to explain my life and its meaning. I have also intended to help others to clarify their lives.
EDVARD MUNCH

Art Clarify Explanation Life Live Myself
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
Any number of holier-than-thou honorable realists walk around in the belief that they have accomplished something, simply because they tell you for the hundredth time that a field is green and a red-painted house is painted red.
EDVARD MUNCH

Accomplishment Belief Holy Honor Walk
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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Greatness Heart Lying Root Work
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
I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked.
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Cloud Myself Nature Scream
Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls.
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Artist Human Myself Soul Try
What is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives.
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Art Growth Human Joy Live Sorrow
One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.
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Creation Easy Painting Sculptor
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 notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose.
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Experience Myself Note Ordinary Poem
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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Children Dangerous Hell Learning Misery Sin
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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