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Edvard Munch

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Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.


— Edvard Munch


#death #light #must #painter #rays

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


— Edvard Munch


#fear #heaven #hell #i #long

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


#afterlife #children #dangers #early #external

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


— Edvard Munch


#i #music #painted #picture #rhythm

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.


— Edvard Munch


#am #body #eternity #flowers #grow

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


— Edvard Munch


#color #common #fall #i #i am

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


#childhood #felt #hanging #head #hell

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


#architectural #frame #frieze #housed #intention

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


— Edvard Munch


#developed #go #technique #why

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


— Edvard Munch


#chapel #creator #easily #paintings #sculptor






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Did you know about Edvard Munch?

The 1895 pastel sold at auction on 2 May 2012 for US$119922500 including commission. The therapy Munch received for the next eight months included diet and "electrification" (a treatment then fashionable for nervous conditions not to be confused with electroconvulsive therapy). During these early years in his career Munch experimented with many styles including Naturalism and Impressionism.

Edvard Munch (Norwegian: [ˈɛdvɑʁd ˈmʉŋk]; 12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944) was a Norwegian painter and printmaker whose intensely evocative treatment of psychological themes built upon some of the main tenets of late 19th-century Symbolism and greatly influenced German Expressionism in the early 20th century. One of his most well-known works is The Scream of 1893.

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