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Edvard Munch Inspirational Quotes (39)

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I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.
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I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.
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To die is as if one's eyes had been put out and one cannot see anything any more. Perhaps it is like being shut in a cellar. One is abandoned by all. They have slammed the door and are gone. One does not see anything and notices only the damp smell of putrefaction.
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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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When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
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Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
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My father was temperamentally nervous and obsessively religious—to the point of psychoneurosis. From him I inherited the seeds of madness. The angels of fear, sorrow, and death stood by my side since the day I was born.
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The way one sees is also dependent upon one's emotional state of mind. This is why a motif can be looked at in so many ways, and this is what makes art so interesting.
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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.
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Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.
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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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Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
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Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness.
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I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted ... the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked.
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My fear of life is necessary to me, as is my illness. Without anxiety and illness, I am a ship without a rudder. My art is grounded in reflections over being different from others. My sufferings are part of my self and my art. They are indistinguishable from me, and their destruction would destroy my art. I want to keep those sufferings
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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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Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.
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I felt as if there were invisible threads connecting us - I felt the invisible strands of her hair still winding around me - and thus as she disappeared completely beyond the sea - I still felt it, felt the pain where my heart was bleeding - because the threads could not be severed.
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At different moments you see with different eyes. You see differently in the morning than you do in the evening. In addition, how you see is also dependent on your emotional state. Because of this, a motif can be seen in many different ways, and this is what makes art interesting.
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A work of art can only come from the interior of man. Art is the form of the image formed upon the nerves, heart, brain and eye of man.
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I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.
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Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have
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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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Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.
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