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I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.
Edvard Munch
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Edvard Munch
Age: 80 †
Born: 1863
Born: January 1
Died: 1944
Died: January 1
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Drawer
Graphic Artist
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Printmaker
E. Munch
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My father was temperamentally nervous and obsessively religious—to the point of psychoneurosis. From him I inherited the seeds of madness. The angels of fear, sorrow, and death stood by my side since the day I was born.
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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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When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
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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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My breakthrough came very late in life, really only starting when I was 50...I had the strength for new deeds and ideas.
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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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I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.
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Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.
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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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There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.
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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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A work of art can only come from the interior of man. Art is the form of the image formed upon the nerves, heart, brain and eye of man.
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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 rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.
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All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart's blood. Art is your heart's blood.
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Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.
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My fear of life is necessary to me, as is my illness. Without anxiety and illness, I am a ship without a rudder. My art is grounded in reflections over being different from others. My sufferings are part of my self and my art. They are indistinguishable from me, and their destruction would destroy my art. I want to keep those sufferings
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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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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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