"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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"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
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