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Edvard Munch

Quote of Edvard Munch - For as long as I can...


Biography - Edvard Munch:

Norwegian painter and printmaker.
Born: 1863 - Died: 1944
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: Norway
Norway

For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.



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Quotes for: art


Quotes

Quotes about art:


Truly, art is embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it.





My trade and art is to live.





The more I think about it the more I feel that there’s nothing more genuinely artistic than to love people.





Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.





I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'





The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.











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Edvard Munch also said...


Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.





No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.





Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.





I build a kind of wall between myself and the model so that I can paint in peace behind it. Otherwise, she might say something that confuses and distracts me.





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





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












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