All Edvard Munch Quotes
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
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Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color.
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Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
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I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.
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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.
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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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Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.
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A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.
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