Edvard Munch Quotes

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Edvard Munch

Profession : Artist

Birth : December 12, 1863

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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