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Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye. it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.

Edvard Munch

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By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life.

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By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life.
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Color Form Vibrate
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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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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Meaning
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
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In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color.

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In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color.
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Color Rise
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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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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Drawing Frame
Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.

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Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.
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Boat
My will exceeds my talents.

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My will exceeds my talents.
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Willing
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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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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Clarify
Art comes from joy and pain, But mostly from pain.

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Art comes from joy and pain, But mostly from pain.
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I build a kind of wall between myself and t he model so that I can paint in peace behind it. Otherwise, she might say something that confuses and distracts me.

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I build a kind of wall between myself and t he model so that I can paint in peace behind it. Otherwise, she might say something that confuses and distracts me.
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Distract Model
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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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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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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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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Detail
I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.

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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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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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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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Academics Factory
It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.

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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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Photography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.

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Photography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
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