Edvard Munch Quotes

• Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.

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  Tags in People, Talented

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

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  Tags in Anxiety, Illness

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

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  Tags in Person, Enemies

• 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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• This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer’s art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution.

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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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  Tags in Men, Rich, Hearts

• The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose.

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  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Self, Spiritual

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

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Remarkable

• Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.

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  Tags in Themselves, Reconcile

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

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Situations

• 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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• One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.

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  Tags in Creator, Paintings

• Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?

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  Tags in Painting, Technique

• 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.

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  Topics in Work

  Tags in Men And Women

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

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  Topics in Nature, Soul

• It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it.

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  Tags in Self, Intention

• In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in Hell hanging over my head.

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  Tags in Self, Childhood, Punishment

• In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color.

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  Tags in Self, Comparison, Persons

• I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for its accommodation and the funds for its completion were available.

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  Tags in Funds, Completion

• I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.

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  Tags in Rhythm, Music

Edvard Munch (30)

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

About

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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