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Edvard Munch Biography

Edvard Munch (/mʊŋk/; Norwegian: [ˈedvɑʈ ˈmuŋk] ( listen); 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. His best known work is The Scream, painted in 1893.

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I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.

Paint, Saw, Saws, See, Vision

And I would often wake up at night and stare widely into the room: Am I in Hell?

Night, Room, Rooms, Wake, Wake Up

Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder.

Anxiety, Illness, Rudder, Ships, Should Have

I was walking along a road one evening – on one side lay the city, and below me was the fjord. The sun went down – the clouds were stained red, as if with blood. I felt as though the whole of nature was screaming – it seemed as though I could hear a scream. I painted that picture, painting the clouds like real blood. The colours screamed.

Blood, Clouds, Felt, Fjord, Real, Walking

In my art I have tried to explain to myself life and its meaning. I have also tried to help others to clarify their lives.

Art, Help, Helping, Helping Others, Tried

I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man's urge to open his heart

Art, Believe, Men, Open, Result, Urge

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.

Artist, Children, Dangers, Misery, Punishment

I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.

Artist, Color, Colors, Painted, Picture, Saws

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

Art, Eye, Nature, Pictures, Soul, Visible

The viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church.

Church, Hats, Painting, Remove, Spirit, Viewers

Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.

Courage, Disease, Life, Like, Oars, Would Be

It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it.

Artist, Frame, Intention, Room, Rooms

I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted. . . the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked.

Art, Blood, Clouds, Scream

My will exceeds my talents.

Exceed, Exceeds, Talent, Talents

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.

Accommodations, Available, Completion, Funds, Rooms, Should Have

When I paint, I never think of selling. People simply fail to understand that we paint in order to experiment and to develop ourselves as we strive for greater heights.

Order, People, Selling, Think, Thinking

Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.

Ahead, Frescoes, Paint, People, Talented, Youth

Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.

Artist, Colors, Dark, Light, Painter, Work

I felt as if there were invisible threads connecting us - I felt the invisible strands of her hair still winding around me - and thus as she disappeared completely beyond the sea - I still felt it, felt the pain where my heart was bleeding - because the threads could not be severed.

Connecting, Hair, Heart, Pain, Winding

In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in Hell hanging over my head

Childhood, Head, Mother, Punishment, Sick, Threat

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