Edvard Munch Quotes (30 quotes)

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„Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?“
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„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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„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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„Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.“
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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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„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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„I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell.“
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„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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„The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.“
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„A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.“
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„In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color.“
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„I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.“
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„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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„One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.“
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„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.“
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„Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.“
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„Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.“
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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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„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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„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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Author information

Edvard Munch
Author born: December 12, 1863
Author died: January 23, 1944
Nationality: Norwegian
Author Profession: Artist

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