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Quote of Edvard Munch: Nature is not only all that...


Biography - Edvard Munch:

Norwegian painter and printmaker.
Born: 1863 - Died: 1944
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: Norway
Norway

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
Edvard Munch


Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.

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Translation

Translation

(German, French)



German
Natur ist nichts, was nur mit dem Auge allein gesehen werden kann. Sie liegt auch in der Seele.
Edvard Munch

French
La nature n’est pas uniquement ce qui est visible à l’œil – c’est aussi les images que l’âme s’en est faite.
Edvard Munch



See also 

See also...



There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.
Charles Baudelaire - Les Fleurs du mal

Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.
Gérard de Nerval

There are unknown forces in nature when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.
Auguste Rodin

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Nature

It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Emile, or On Education



Quotes for: nature


Quotes

Quotes about nature:


Universal Nature has made reasonable creatures for the sake of one another.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations / 





Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see.
Vincent Willem van Gogh - Letters to Theo / 





Truly, art is embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it.
Albrecht Dürer - Four Books of Human Proportion / 





Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
Blaise Pascal - Pensées / 





Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis - Satires / 





Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.
Jeremy Bentham - Principles of Morals and Legislation / 






All about nature...




Quotes for: soul


Quotes

Quotes about soul:


Science without conscience is only ruin of the soul.
François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel / 





Philosophy is the culture of the soul.
Marcus Tullius Cicero / 





Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
Augustine of Hippo / 





At any moment you choose you can retire within yourself. Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations / 





Do not trouble yourself, make yourself simple.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations / 





For souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years.
Pierre Corneille - Le Cid / 






All about soul...




Quotes

Quotes for: eyes


To live without philosophizing is properly to have one's eyes closed and never attempt to open them.
René Descartes - Principles of Philosophy / 





It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery / 





What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.
Robert Green Ingersoll / 





Philosophy is written in this grand book, which stands continually open before our eyes (I say the Universe), but can not be understood without first learning to comprehend the language and know the characters as it is written. It is written in mathematical language, and its characters are triangles, circles and other geometric figures, without which it is impossible to humanly understand a word; without these one is wandering in a dark labyrinth.
Galileo Galilei - The Assayer / 





The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to see the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to see the hundred universes that each of them sees, that each of them is.
Marcel Proust - La Prisonnière / 





The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
Henry David Thoreau - Walden; or, Life in the Woods / 






All eyes quotes...




Quotes

Edvard Munch also said...


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 / 





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





Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.
Edvard Munch





I build a kind of wall between myself and the model so that I can paint in peace behind it. Otherwise, she might say something that confuses and distracts me.
Edvard Munch





From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
Edvard Munch / 





I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.
Edvard Munch







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