Edvard Munch — "I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell…"
I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.
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"I painted the same picture over and over again, the same feelings."
"My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are?"
"Man is a part of nature, and his feelings are part of nature."
"My fear of life is necessary to me, as is my illness. They are indistinguishable from me, and their destruction would destroy my art."
"A picture is just like me; the more you try to understand it, the more it hides from you."
About Edvard Munch (1863-1944)
Norwegian Expressionist painter whose The Scream (1893) became the iconic image of modern existential dread. Closely associated with James Ensor (Belgian Expressionist peer) and Egon Schiele (younger Expressionist heir). For an intellectual contrast, see Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French Impressionist (1841-1919) — Munch and Renoir were exact contemporaries painting the same Belle Époque from opposite emotional poles — Renoir's dappled-light bourgeois pleasure and Munch's anxiety-soaked bourgeois terror are the late-19th-century painting's two halves. The same world; the cleanest emotional inversion.