Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness.
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For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.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
Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.
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The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.
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To die is as if one's eyes had been put out and one cannot see anything any more. Perhaps it is like being shut in a cellar. One is abandoned by all. They have slammed the door and are gone. One does not see anything and notices only the damp smell of putrefaction.
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Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.
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