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Life Quotes by Edvard Munch
- In my art I have tried to explain to myself life and its meaning. I have also tried to help others to clarify their lives.
- 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…
- 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…
- My breakthrough came very late in life, really only starting when I was 50...I had the strength for new deeds and ideas.
- Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
- My whole life has been spent walking by the side of a bottomless chasm, jumping from stone to stone. Sometimes I try to leave my…
- 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…
- Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.
- 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…
- Your face encompasses the beauty of the whole earth. Your lips, as red as ripening fruit, gently part as if in pain. It is the…
- Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.
- Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.
- The colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle