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I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.

~Edvard Munch

Topics: Colors Music Painted Picture Rhythm Saw

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Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder.

~Edvard Munch

Topics: Anxiety Been Illness Like Rudder Ship Should Without

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I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.

~Edvard Munch

Topics: Cannot Fear Heaven Hell Long No Fear Photography Used

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A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.

~Edvard Munch

Topics: Believes Except Good Himself Other Person Portraits

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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

Topics: Always Childhood Felt Hanging Head Hell Mother Over Punishment Sick Threat Treated Without

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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.

~Edvard Munch

Topics: Behind Between Build Confuses He Kind Me Might Model Myself Otherwise Paint Peace Say She Something Wall I Can T

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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.

~Edvard Munch

Topics: About Afterlife Children Dangers Early External Hell Learned Life Misery Punishment Sin Which

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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.

~Edvard Munch

Topics: After Art Bourgeois Came Civil Dealer Following Frames French French Revolution Kind Large Painting Revolution Wars

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In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color.

~Edvard Munch

Topics: Am Color Common Fall Interested Line Michelangelo More Rembrandt Rise Than I Am

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One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.

~Edvard Munch

Topics: Above Chapel Creator Easily Paintings Sculptor Sistine Tell

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Biography

Nationality: Norwegian

Type: Artist

Born: December 12th, 1863

Died: January 23rd, 1944

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