"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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"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
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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. Otherwise, she might say something that confuses and distracts me."
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"I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell."
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"Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life."
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