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Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch
Norwegian Artist
Born: Dec 12, 1863
Died: Jan 23, 1944
Always Colors Death Life Painting People
Related authors: Andy Warhol Claude Monet Jean-Michel Basquiat Leonardo da Vinci Michelangelo Pablo Picasso Salvador Dali Vincent Van Gogh
Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life. Edvard Munch
Life Death Me Sickness Insanity My Life Followed Angels Throughout Were Surrounded Cradle
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. Edvard Munch
Memories Simplicity Picture Nothing Painting Took Adding Eye Details See Followed Only Emptiness Impressions Did Painted Moments Paintings Hence
Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul. Edvard Munch
Nature Soul Visible Eye Only Pictures Also Inner
The colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas. Edvard Munch
Life Own Live Remarkable Colors Been After Canvas Applied
Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life. Edvard Munch
Life Death Me Insanity My Life Followed Angels Throughout Attended Since Were Disease Cradle Then
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. Edvard Munch
Mother Hell Sick Punishment Threat Head Over Felt Without Always Childhood Hanging Treated
Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes. Edvard Munch
Youth People Young Must Prosper Talented Talented People Go Very Paint Painters
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. Edvard Munch
Art Revolution Painting Frames Kind Civil Following Civil Wars Bourgeois French French Revolution Dealer Came After Wars Large
When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness. Edvard Munch
Good Enemies Find Likeness Always His Person Paint Portrait
A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself. Edvard Munch
Good Other Except Himself Person Believes Portraits
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. Edvard Munch
Spiritual Made Sense Poems Records Prose Partly Diary Experiences Ordinary Ordinary Sense Lengthy Notes
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. Edvard Munch
Myself Me Peace Build Otherwise Say Kind Something He Between She Model Wall Behind Might Confuses Paint
In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color. Edvard Munch
Fall Rise More Color Rembrandt Am Line Than Michelangelo Common Interested
Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards? Edvard Munch
Backwards Developed Go Why Technique
The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men. Edvard Munch
Man Money Men First Rich Steals Gives He Over Hearts Rich Man Then Who Twice
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. Edvard Munch
Eyes Smell Gone Damp Abandoned Out See More Only Had Put Like Perhaps Does Been Die Cellar Any Being Door Anything Cannot Notices Slammed Shut
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. Edvard Munch
People Relatives Will Difficult Earth Find Religious Religious People Rate Conceive Continue Friends Any Afterlife Conversations Many Believing Here Hereafter Christians Interrupted Imagine
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. Edvard Munch
Life Seen Painting Mood Phonograph Seeking Colors Make Does Lines Vibrate Forms Origin Paintings

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