Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.
EDVARD MUNCHIf 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.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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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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Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.
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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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Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.
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It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it.
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Art comes from joy and pain, But mostly from pain.
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One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.
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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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A work of art can only come from the interior of man. Art is the form of the image formed upon the nerves, heart, brain and eye of man.
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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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My will exceeds my talents.
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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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When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
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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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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.
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