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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.

Edvard Munch

I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.
EDVARD MUNCH

Myself Paint See
Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
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Art Development Style Technique
The viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church.
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Painting Removal Understand View
There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.
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Battle Love Man Woman
I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.
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Art Believe Born Heart Man Need Open
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
I find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as Christians, or at any rate many religious people, conceive it, believing that the conversations with relatives and friends interrupted here on earth will be continued in the hereafter.
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Conversation Difficult Finding Myself Religion
My breakthrough came very late in life, really only starting when I was 50. I had the strength for new deeds and ideas.
EDVARD MUNCH

Ideas Life Myself Start Strength
And I would often wake up at night and stare widely into the room: Am I in Hell?
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Hell Myself Room Stare Wake Up
A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.
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Believe Goodness Himself Oneself Person
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
Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
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Canvas Color Live
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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Anxiety Art Expression Feeling Remember Suffering
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
I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.
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Fear Heaven Hell Photography
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.
EDVARD MUNCH

Emotion Oneself Paint See Strength

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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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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