No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
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I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.Edvard Munch
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
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
Edvard Munch
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.
Edvard Munch
I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.
Edvard Munch
Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.
Edvard Munch
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