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Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.
Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.
The colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose.
The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.
This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution.
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.
When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder.
Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.
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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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