In common with Michelangelo and Rembrand... | Edvard Munch

In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color.

- Edvard Munch

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I will perform My Heart Will Go On for the rest of my life and it will always remain a very emotional experience for me.

- Celine Dion

Other quotes by Edvard Munch

Anxiety

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

- Edvard Munch

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.

- Edvard Munch

Feeling Art

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.

- Edvard Munch

Portraits

A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.

- Edvard Munch

Music

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

- Edvard Munch

Art

This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution.

- Edvard Munch

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