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When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
Edvard Munch
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Edvard Munch
Age: 80 †
Born: 1863
Born: January 1
Died: 1944
Died: January 1
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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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Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.
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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 have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.
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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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Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.
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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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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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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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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 way one sees is also dependent upon one's emotional state of mind. This is why a motif can be looked at in so many ways, and this is what makes art so interesting.
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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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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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I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.
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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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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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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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Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.
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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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