The best Quotes by Edvard Munch

The best Quotes by Edvard Munch

Edvard Munch (12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944) was a Norwegian painter. His best known work, The Scream (1893), has become one of Western art's most iconic images.

The colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
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Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder.
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.
Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?
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I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.
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I'll always be a student of the brush, never its master.
I'm telling you to look up instead of down at the paper you sketch on. Or rather, look in. I think you're going to look back one day and understand yourself in whole new way because of the choices you're making right now. And maybe this finds its way to a canvas.
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In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.
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The sky isn't blue and the grass isn't green. Nature stirs in hues I can't name.
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.
Colors are the smiles of nature.
There's no death for those who don't fear it.
Death is so close, always, a breath away, so perhaps it was wise to introduce children to that concept at an early age.
Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains?" "Yes," I said.
For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
It's odd, isn't it? People die everyday and the world goes on like nothing happened.
Kyoko Kirigiri in Danganronpa
Eternity is instantaneous, and an instant is eternal.
Archer in Fate/stay night
Eternity stretches things out over a long time. But each moment within it becomes all the more fragile.
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He is not a lover who does not love forever.
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Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always.
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Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.
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There's a lot of money to be made in scaring people.
Admitting your fears is the first and most difficult step in overcoming them.
Fear doesn't need conquering. Fear tells you where the edge is. Fear is a good thing.
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There are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst fear realized.
Maybe fear is God's way of saying, "Pay attention, this could be fun!"
I have consistently loved books that I've read when I've been sick in bed.
When you're sick, nobody takes care of you like your mom.
Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.
Health is not valued till sickness comes.
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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Anything is possible if you got enough nerve.
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To me, the very definition of the word "broken" suggests that something can be fixed.
Elijah Mikaelson in The Originals - Season 1 Episode 8
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Sometimes the right path is not the easiest one.
Grandmother Willow in Pocahontas
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Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
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How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
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Philippe: "Tell me Driss, why do you think people are interested in art?"
Driss: "I don't know, it's a business?"
Philippe: "No. That's because it's the only thing one leaves behind."
Driss in Intouchables
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The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed.
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Artists use lies to tell the truth, while politicians use them to cover the truth up.
Evey Hammond in V for Vendetta
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Art is a way of survival.
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All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once you grow up.
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What began as a common desire to secure wilderness for people to enjoy, has become a worldwide movement to preserve these areas for future generations. They're a place to escape the burdens of everyday life and an inspiration for our children. They're a haven for endangered species and a hotbed for scientific research.
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Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction.
Nature has to be felt.
We are not to tell Nature what she's gotta be! She's clever. She's always got better imagination than we have.
We like to spend time in nature because it won't judge us.

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