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

~Edvard Munch

Topics: Angels Cradle Death Followed Insanity Life Me My Life Sickness Surrounded Throughout Were

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The colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.

~Edvard Munch

Topics: After Applied Been Canvas Colors Life Live Own Remarkable

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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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Topics: Colors Death Light Must Painter Rays Work

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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

Topics: Anxiety Art Deep Express Feeling Long Remember Suffered Tried Which I Can

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Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.

~Edvard Munch

Topics: Another Clash Colors Just Others Reconcile Some Themselves

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

~Edvard Munch

Topics: Also Eye Inner Nature Only Pictures Soul Visible

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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.

~Edvard Munch

Topics: Breathe Feel Knitting Living Longer Love Men Paint People Reading Shall Suffer Who Will Women

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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.

~Edvard Munch

Topics: Adding Details Did Emptiness Eye Followed Hence Impressions Memories Moments Nothing Only Painted Painting Paintings Picture See Simplicity Took

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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.

~Edvard Munch

Topics: Abandoned Any Anything Been Being Cannot Cellar Die Does Door Eyes Gone Had Like More Notices Only Out Perhaps Put See Shut Slammed Smell

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

~Edvard Munch

Topics: Am Body Eternity Flowers Grow Shall Them I Am

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Biography

Nationality: Norwegian

Type: Artist

Born: December 12th, 1863

Died: January 23rd, 1944

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