When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
EDVARD MUNCH
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Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls.
More Edvard Munch Quotes
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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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A work of art comes only from inside a human being.
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Photography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
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A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.
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I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man’s urge to open his heart.
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It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.
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Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
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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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By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life.
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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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All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart’s blood. Art is your heart’s blood.
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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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