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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.

Edvard Munch

One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.
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Creation Easy Painting Sculptor
Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.
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Accomplishment Fear Myself Sick
Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
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Art Development Style Technique
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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Art Clarify Explanation Life Live Myself
The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose.
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Experience Myself Note Ordinary Poem
In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color.
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Art Color Fall Interest Myself Rise
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
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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Academics Art Factory Greatness Painting Talent
No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
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Breathe Love Paint Reading Suffering Woman
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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Architecture Frame Intention Room
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.
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Conversation Difficult Finding Myself Religion
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
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
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Flower Forever Growth Myself
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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Accomplishment Belief Holy Honor Walk
Art comes from joy and pain, But mostly from pain.
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Art Creation Joy Pain
I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell.
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Children Dangerous Hell Learning Misery Sin

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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