My father was temperamentally nervous and obsessively religious – to the point of psychoneurosis. From him I inherited the seeds of madness. The angels of fear, sorrow, and death stood by my side since the day I was born.
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"My afflictions belong to me and my art - they have become one with me. Without illness and anxiety, I would have been a rudderless ship."
"I paint memories, not things."
"The camera cannot compete with the brush and palette, it is far too clumsy."
"Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder."
"I hear the scream of nature."
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.
Reflecting on his inherited psychological and emotional predispositions.
Date: Early 20th Century
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