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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

This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer’s art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution.
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Drawing Frame Kind Painting Revolution
Art comes from joy and pain, But mostly from pain.
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Art Creation Joy Pain
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
When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
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Enemy Finding Goodness Painting Person Portrait
There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.
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Battle Love Man Woman
Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.
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Color Oneself
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
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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Art Camera Complete Heaven Hell Photograph Tools
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
I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.
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Myself Paint See
I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.
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Art Believe Born Heart Man Need Open
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
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.
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Available Complete Consider Fund Room Wrong
Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
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Canvas Color Live
Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls.
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Artist Human Myself Soul Try
Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.
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Boat Disease Fear Life Myself

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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