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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.
Edvard Munch
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Edvard Munch
Age: 80 †
Born: 1863
Born: January 1
Died: 1944
Died: January 1
Draftsperson
Drawer
Graphic Artist
Painter
Printmaker
E. Munch
Munch
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Heights
Thinking
Experiment
People
Failing
Height
Simply
Experiments
Greater
Selling
Understand
Develop
Order
Strive
Never
Fail
Think
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I was walking along a road one evening – on one side lay the city, and below me was the fjord. The sun went down – the clouds were stained red, as if with blood. I felt as though the whole of nature was screaming – it seemed as though I could hear a scream. I painted that picture, painting the clouds like real blood. The colours screamed.
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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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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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All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart's blood. Art is your heart's blood.
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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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It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.
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Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.
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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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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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There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.
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The viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church.
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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 painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.
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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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I build a kind of wall between myself and t he model so that I can paint in peace behind it. Otherwise, she might say something that confuses and distracts me.
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Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.
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When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
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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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Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.
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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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