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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.


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.

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.




See also 

See also...



There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.


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.

Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.

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.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.




Quotes for: nature


Quotes

Quotes about nature:


Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see.





Truly, art is embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it.





Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.





Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.





Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.





Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.











Quotes for: soul


Quotes

Quotes about soul:


Science without conscience is only ruin of the soul.





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





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.





Do not trouble yourself, make yourself simple.





For souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years.





Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search thereof when he is grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.











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.





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.





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





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.





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





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












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