Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch; 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...
NationalityNorwegian
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth12 December 1863
CityAdalsbruk, Norway
CountryNorway
Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.
And I would often wake up at night and stare widely into the room: Am I in Hell?
Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls.
I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.
My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are? ... my art gives meaning to my life.
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.
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.
Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.
In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color
When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
The way one sees is also dependent upon one's emotional state of mind. This is why a motif can be looked at in so many ways, and this is what makes art so interesting.
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.
It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it.
The Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories - those with talent are fed in at one end, and they come out as mechanical painting machines.