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
Edvard Munch quotes about
When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.
Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
Anybody who perceives colors can become a painter. It's simply a question of whether or not one has felt anything and whether one has the courage to recount the things one has felt.
Certainly a chair can be just as interesting as a human being. But first the chair must be perceived by a human being... You should not paint the chair, but only what someone has felt about it.
If what you want to paint is the emotive mood in all its strength... then you must not sit and stare at everything and depict it exactly as one sees it.
One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor
It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.
I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.
We're still hopeful, but we are no longer that confident. The chances of finding the paintings diminish with time and already a lot of time has passed,
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.
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.
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.
In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color