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Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.
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 have been given a unique role to play on this earth: given to me by a life filled with sickness, ill-starred circumstances and my profession as an artist. It is a life that contains nothing that resembles happiness, and moreover does not even desire happiness.
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Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.
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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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The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.
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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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When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
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I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted ... the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked.
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