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Edvard Munch

Quote of Edvard Munch - I build a kind of wall...


Biography - Edvard Munch:

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

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.



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Quotes for: painting


Quotes

Quotes about painting:


I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.





Eloquence is a painting of thought.





Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.





It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.





I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.





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.











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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.





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.





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





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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