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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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EDVARD MUNCH To die is as if one's eyes had been put out and one cannot see anything any more. Perhaps it is ...
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EDVARD MUNCH The colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
EDVARD MUNCH Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
EDVARD MUNCH From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them, and that is eternity.
EDVARD MUNCH Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder.
EDVARD MUNCH For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to e...
EDVARD MUNCH Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.
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EDVARD MUNCH Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.
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EDVARD MUNCH The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.
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EDVARD MUNCH I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw...
EDVARD MUNCH A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself...
EDVARD MUNCH Suddenly a mist fell from my eyes and I knew the way I had to take.
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EDVARD MOSER Increasing knowledge lessens the sphere of the supernatural.
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EDVARD MOSER The conductor must breathe life into the score. It is you and you alone who must expose it to the un...
CHARLES MUNCH I believe that every human being endowed with intelligence, memory, and strength of character bears ...
CHARLES MUNCH Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible. It rises far above what words can mean or the inte...
CHARLES MUNCH A conductor, in giving a faithful reproduction and exact translation of the written notes, can re-cr...
CHARLES MUNCH The collective conscience of a hundred musicians is no light burden. Think for a moment of what it w...
CHARLES MUNCH My heart I fain would ask thee What then is Love? say on. "Two souls and one thought only ...
E.F.J. VON MUNCH BELLINGHAUSEN ("FRIEDRICH HALM") Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
E F J VON MUNCH-BELLINGHAUSEN