All Edvard Munch Quotes
A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.
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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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When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
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Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.
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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.
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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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Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.
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The colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
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One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.
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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 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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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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Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.
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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.
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Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder.
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