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A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.
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.
Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.
Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.
For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
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.
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.
I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.
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.
I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.
I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for its accommodation and the funds for its completion were available.
In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color.
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.
It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it.
Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.
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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Edvard Munch
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BirthDate
12 December, 1863
DeathDate
23 January, 1944
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Norway
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