Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.
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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
It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it.
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Your face encompasses the beauty of the whole earth. Your lips, as red as ripening fruit, gently part as if in pain. It is the smile of a corpse. Now the hand of death touches life. The chain is forged that links the thousand families that are dead to the thousand generations to come.
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One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.
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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.
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I build a kind of wall between myself and t he model so that I can paint in peace behind it. Otherwise, she might say something that confuses and distracts me.
Edvard Munch
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