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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.

Edvard Munch

Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
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Canvas Color Live
I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.
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Myself Paint See
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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Art Life Meaning Myself Reflection
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
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
Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.
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Color Oneself
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
My breakthrough came very late in life, really only starting when I was 50. I had the strength for new deeds and ideas.
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Ideas Life Myself Start Strength
My will exceeds my talents.
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Inspirational Talent Willing
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
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Flower Forever Growth Myself
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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Color Form Life Photograph Seek Vibrate
Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.
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Painting People Prosperity Talent Youth
It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.
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Art Better Goodness Painting
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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Emotion Oneself Paint See Strength
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.
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Experiment Greatness Height Paint Sales Thinking
Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.
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Disease Follow Insane Life Man

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