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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 have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.
EDVARD MUNCH

Fear Heaven Hell Photography
Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.
EDVARD MUNCH

Painting People Prosperity Talent Youth
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.
EDVARD MUNCH

Conversation Difficult Finding Myself Religion
One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.
EDVARD MUNCH

Creation Easy Painting Sculptor
Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.
EDVARD MUNCH

Darkness Death Light Painting Work
My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are? My art gives meaning to my life.
EDVARD MUNCH

Art Life Meaning Myself Reflection
I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.
EDVARD MUNCH

Myself Paint See
The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.
EDVARD MUNCH

Heart Man Rich Steal
Art comes from joy and pain, But mostly from pain.
EDVARD MUNCH

Art Creation Joy Pain
I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for its accommodation and the funds for its completion were available.
EDVARD MUNCH

Available Complete Consider Fund Room Wrong
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.
EDVARD MUNCH

Accomplishment Belief Holy Honor Walk
Photography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
EDVARD MUNCH

Art Blood Heart Oneself Photography Touch
The camera will never compete with the brush and the palette, until such time as photographs can be taken in Heaven or Hell.
EDVARD MUNCH

Art Camera Complete Heaven Hell Photograph Tools
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.
EDVARD MUNCH

Experiment Greatness Height Paint Sales Thinking
And I would often wake up at night and stare widely into the room: Am I in Hell?
EDVARD MUNCH

Hell Myself Room Stare Wake Up
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

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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