Norwegian - Artist | December 12, 1863 - January 23, 1944
The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.
Edvard Munch
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When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
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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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I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.
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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.
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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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One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.
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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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Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
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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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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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In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color.
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