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Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.

I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw...

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No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people wh...

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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them, and that is eternity.

I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.

The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to e...

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My whole life has been spent walking by the side of a bottomless chasm, jumping from stone to stone....

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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. Otherwi...

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Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed m...

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Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me thr...

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Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul...

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Edvard Munch

Painter

Born: 1863-12-12

Died: 1944-01-23

Edvard Munch (12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944) was a Norwegian Symbolist painter and printmaker, and an important forerunner of the Expressionistic art movement.More