The viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church.
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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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.
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I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.
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My breakthrough came very late in life, really only starting when I was 50. I had the strength for new deeds and ideas.
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When I paint, I never think of selling. People simply fail to understand that we paint in order to experiment and to develop ourselves as we strive for greater heights.
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Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.
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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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The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.
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Photography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
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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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All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart’s blood. Art is your heart’s blood.
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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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Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
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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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Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
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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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