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All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart's blood. Art is your heart's blood.
Edvard Munch
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Edvard Munch
Age: 80 †
Born: 1863
Born: January 1
Died: 1944
Died: January 1
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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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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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Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
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Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.
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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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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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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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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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Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.
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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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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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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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I have been given a unique role to play on this earth: given to me by a life filled with sickness, ill-starred circumstances and my profession as an artist. It is a life that contains nothing that resembles happiness, and moreover does not even desire happiness.
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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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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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There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.
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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 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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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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