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“Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.”
-- Edvard Munch
#Art #Eye #Soul
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“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.”
-- Edvard Munch
#Art #Reading #Men
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“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.”
-- Edvard Munch
#Death #Flower #I Hate You
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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.”
-- Edvard Munch
#Memories #Eye #Artist
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“A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.”
-- Edvard Munch
#Believe #Portraits #Persons
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“I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.”
-- Edvard Munch
#Vision #Saws #Paint
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“One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor”
-- Edvard Munch
#Painting #Chapel #Sistine Chapel
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“Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have”
-- Edvard Munch
#Mental Health #Illness #Accomplished
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“I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted ... the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked.”
-- Edvard Munch
#Art #Clouds #Blood
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“I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.”
-- Edvard Munch
#Photography #Long #Heaven
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“The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.”
-- Edvard Munch
#Heart #Men #Giving
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“I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man's urge to open his heart”
-- Edvard Munch
#Art #Believe #Men
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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.”
-- Edvard Munch
#Morning #Art #Eye
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“Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.”
-- Edvard Munch
#Color #Canvas #Remarkable
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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”
-- Edvard Munch
#Art #Reflection #Self
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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
#Thinking #Order #People
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“For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.”
-- Edvard Munch
#Art #Long #Anxiety
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“Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.”
-- Edvard Munch
#Angel #Artist #Insanity
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“Art comes from joy and pain...But mostly from pain.”
-- Edvard Munch
#Art #Pain #Joy
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“Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder.”
-- Edvard Munch
#Anxiety #Ships #Illness
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“I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.”
-- Edvard Munch
#Art #Believe #Men
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“My will exceeds my talents.”
-- Edvard Munch
#Talent
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“Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.”
-- Edvard Munch
#Artist #Color #Clash
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“Photography is an art which touches and grips one's own heart's blood.”
-- Edvard Munch
#Photography #Art #Heart
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“In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in Hell hanging over my head”
-- Edvard Munch
#Mother #Punishment #Sick
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“Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?”
-- Edvard Munch
#Oil Painting #Technique #Backwards
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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.”
-- Edvard Munch
#Ideas #Age #Deeds
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“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.”
-- Edvard Munch
#Art #War #Hippie
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“If what you want to paint is the emotive mood in all its strength... then you must not sit and stare at everything and depict it exactly as one sees it.”
-- Edvard Munch
#Want #Mood #Paint
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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.”
-- Edvard Munch
#Unique #Artist #Play
