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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

Edvard Munch

To die is as if one’s eyes had been put out and one cannot see anything any more. Perhaps it is like being shut in a cellar. One is abandoned by all. They have slammed the door and are gone. One does not see anything and notices only the damp smell of putrefaction.

– Edvard Munch

Edvard Munch

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

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Edvard Munch

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

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Edvard Munch

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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Edvard Munch

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

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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.

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Edvard Munch

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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Edvard Munch

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.

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Edvard Munch

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

Edvard Munch

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

– Edvard Munch

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