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1863–1944 Norway
Edvard Munch (12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944) was a Norwegian Symbolist painter and printmaker, and an important forerunner of the Expressionistic art movement.
Also known as: Munch, Edvard
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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.
I do not believe in art which is not the compulsive result of humanity's urge to open its heart.
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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
By painting colours and lines and forms seen in a quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does.
Could only have been painted by a madman.
My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are? ..my art gives meaning to my life.
I thought I should make something – I felt it would be so easy – it would take form under my hands like magic.
There must be no more pictures covered in brown sauce [c. 1880, when Munch started to paint series of landscapes in fresh colors]
No one in art has yet penetrated as far [as Dostoyevsky into the mystical realms of the soul, towards the metaphysical, the subconsciousness, viewing the external reality of the world as merely a sign, a symbol of the spiritual and metaphysical.
What is art really? The outcome of dissatisfaction with life, the point of impact for the creative force, the continual movement of life.. ..in my art I attempt to explain life and its meaning to myself.
When seen as a whole, art derives from a person's desire to communicate himself to another. I do not believe in an art which is not forced into existence by a human being’s desire to open his heart. All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart’s blood. Art is your heart’s blood.
Manuscript (1891)
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