By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life.
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The paintings are moods, impressions of the life of the soul, and together they represent one aspect of the battle, between man and woman, that is called love.Edvard Munch
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.
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Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder.
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In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color.
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Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.
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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.
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