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Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have
Edvard Munch
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Edvard Munch
Age: 80 †
Born: 1863
Born: January 1
Died: 1944
Died: January 1
Draftsperson
Drawer
Graphic Artist
Painter
Printmaker
E. Munch
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At different moments you see with different eyes. You see differently in the morning than you do in the evening. In addition, how you see is also dependent on your emotional state. Because of this, a motif can be seen in many different ways, and this is what makes art interesting.
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Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.
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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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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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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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When I paint, I never think of selling. People simply fail to understand that we paint in order to experiment and to develop ourselves as we strive for greater heights.
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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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I felt as if there were invisible threads connecting us - I felt the invisible strands of her hair still winding around me - and thus as she disappeared completely beyond the sea - I still felt it, felt the pain where my heart was bleeding - because the threads could not be severed.
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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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Certainly a chair can be just as interesting as a human being. But first the chair must be perceived by a human being... You should not paint the chair, but only what someone has felt about it.
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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 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 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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The Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories - those with talent are fed in at one end, and they come out as mechanical painting machines.
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Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.
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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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I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.
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Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
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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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