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
The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.
Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have
I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man's urge to open his heart
There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.
A work of art can only come from the interior of man. Art is the form of the image formed upon the nerves, heart, brain and eye of man.
I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.
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.
The colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.
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.
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.
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.
When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.