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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.
Edvard Munch
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Edvard Munch
Age: 80 †
Born: 1863
Born: January 1
Died: 1944
Died: January 1
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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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Your face encompasses the beauty of the whole earth. Your lips, as red as ripening fruit, gently part as if in pain. It is the smile of a corpse. Now the hand of death touches life. The chain is forged that links the thousand families that are dead to the thousand generations to come.
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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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I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.
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Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have
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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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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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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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My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are? ... my art gives meaning to my life.
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The viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church.
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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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The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.
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When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
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Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.
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