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Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.

~Edvard Munch

Topics: Go Must Paint Painters People Prosper Talented Talented People Very Young Youth Ahead

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Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?

~Edvard Munch

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When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.

~Edvard Munch

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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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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

Topics: Diary Experiences Lengthy Made Notes Ordinary Partly Poems Prose Records Sense Spiritual

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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.

~Edvard Munch

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It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it.

~Edvard Munch

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I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for its accommodation and the funds for its completion were available.

~Edvard Munch

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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.

~Edvard Munch

Topics: Colors Does Forms Life Lines Make Mood Origin Painting Paintings Seeking Seen

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Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.

~Edvard Munch

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Biography

Nationality: Norwegian

Type: Artist

Born: December 12th, 1863

Died: January 23rd, 1944

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