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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

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
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Flower Forever Growth Myself
Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.
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Color Oneself
I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man’s urge to open his heart.
EDVARD MUNCH

Art Believe Heart Myself Open
I was walking along the road with two friends. The sun set. I felt a tinge of melancholy. Suddenly the sky became a bloody red. I stood there, trembling with fright. And I felt a loud, unending scream piercing nature.
EDVARD MUNCH

Friendship Loud Myself Pierce Road Scream Walk
Anybody who perceives colors can become a painter. It’s simply a question of whether or not one has felt anything and whether one has the courage to recount the things one has felt.
EDVARD MUNCH

Color Courage Feeling Oneself Paint Simplicity
Art comes from joy and pain, But mostly from pain.
EDVARD MUNCH

Art Creation Joy Pain
I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.
EDVARD MUNCH

Color Myself Painting Photograph
But can they great works get rid of the worm that lies gnawing at the roots of my heart? No, never.
EDVARD MUNCH

Greatness Heart Lying Root Work
All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart’s blood. Art is your heart’s blood.
EDVARD MUNCH

Art Blood Heart Literature Yourself
Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
EDVARD MUNCH

Canvas Color Live
Photography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
EDVARD MUNCH

Art Blood Heart Oneself Photography Touch
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.
EDVARD MUNCH

Academics Art Factory Greatness Painting Talent
Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.
EDVARD MUNCH

Boat Disease Fear Life Myself
Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.
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Accomplishment Fear Myself Sick
My will exceeds my talents.
EDVARD MUNCH

Inspirational Talent Willing
When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
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Enemy Finding Goodness Painting Person Portrait

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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