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Edvard Munch Quotes

Edvard Munch quotes

Norwegian Artist December 12, 1863 – January 23, 1944

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Your face encompasses the beauty of the whole earth. Your lips, as red as ripening fruit, gently part as if in pain. It is the smile of a corpse. Now the hand of death touches life. The chain is forged that links the thousand families that are dead to the thousand generations to come. Edvard Munch
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. Edvard Munch
My fear of life is necessary to me, as is my illness. Without anxiety and illness, I am a ship without a rudder. My art is grounded in reflections over being different from others. My sufferings are part of my self and my art. They are indistinguishable from me, and their destruction would destroy my art. I want to keep those sufferings Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch quote: "Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded..."
Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life. Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch quote: "Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my..."
Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life. Edvard Munch
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. Edvard Munch
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
Edvard Munch quote: "The colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have..."
The colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas. Edvard Munch
I was walking along a path with two friends? the sun was setting? suddenly the sky turned blood red? I paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fence? there was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city? my friends walked on, and I stood there trembling with anxiety? and I sensed an infinite scream passing through nature. Edvard Munch
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
From the moment of my birth, the angels of anxiety, worry, and death stood at my side, followed me out when I played, followed me in the sun of springtime and in the glories of summer. They stood at my side in the evening when I closed my eyes, and intimidated me with death, hell, and eternal damnation. And I would often wake up at night and stare widely into the room: Am I in Hell? Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch quote: "Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also..."
Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul. Edvard Munch
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
Edvard Munch quote: "For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep..."
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. Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch quote: "Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter,..."
Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light. Edvard Munch

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