Edvard Munch Quotes

• The colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.

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• The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.

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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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• Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder.

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• When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.

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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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• Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness.

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• I find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as Christians, or at any rate many religious people, conceive it, believing that the conversations with relatives and friends interrupted here on earth will be continued in the hereafter.

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

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• 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 the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life.

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Edvard Munch (30)

Birth:	12th December, 1863
Death:	23rd January, 1944
Nationality:	Norwegian
Profession:	Painter

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Edvard Munch was born in Ådalsbruk, Løten, Norway. He was a Norwegian painter whose intensely evocative treatment of psychological themes built upon some of the main tenets of late 19th-century Symbolism and greatly influenced German Expressionism in the early 20th century. One of his most well-known works is The Scream of 1893.  In 1883, Munch took part in his first public exhibition and shared a studio with other students.

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