I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked.
EDVARD MUNCHBut can they great works get rid of the worm that lies gnawing at the roots of my heart? No, never.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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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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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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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
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There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.
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Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
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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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Photography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
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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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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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When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
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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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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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Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.
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What is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives.
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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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