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Edvard Munch
December 12, 1863 - January 23, 1944
Nationality: Norwegian
Category: Artist

Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.

   

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.

   

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

   

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

   

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.

   

A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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

   

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

   

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.

   

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

   

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

   

Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.

   

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

   

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

   

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.

   

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.

   

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

   

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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