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Quote by Edvard Munch

“My will exceeds my talents.”

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Edvard Munch was a Norwegian painter known for his profound emotional expression and symbolic style. His works often explore themes of human existence, such as anxiety, fear, and love. His most famous work, 'The Scream,' has become a symbol of modern art. more

“You should often amuse yourself when you take a walk for recreation, in watching and taking note of the attitudes and actions of men as they talk and dispute, or laugh or come to blows with one another... noting these down with rapid strokes, in a little pocket-book which you ought always to carry with you.”

Men Should Littles Book Action Walks Attitude Laughing Ought Notes Blow Pockets Strokes Amusement Disputes Rapids Recreation

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“The painter must be solitary. For if you are alone you are completely yourself, but if you are accompanied by a single companion, you are only half yourself.”

Ifs Half Painter Companion Solitary

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“Learn diligence before speedy execution.”

Application Execution Diligence Hurrying Hasty Studious Haste Makes Waste

Book:Leonardo Lives: The Codex Leicester and Leonardo Da Vinci's Legacy of Art and Science : [catalog of an Exhibition Held at the Seattle Art Museum, October 23, 1997, to January 4, 1998]

Source: Leonardo Lives: The Codex Leicester and Leonardo Da Vinci's Legacy of Art and Science : [catalog of an Exhibition Held at the Seattle Art Museum, October 23, 1997, to January 4, 1998]

“A painter was asked why, since he made such beautiful figures, which were but dead things, his children were so ugly; to which the painter replied that he made his pictures by day, and his children by night.”

Children Made Beautiful Night Figures Ugly Painter

Book:Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci: Complete & Illustrated

Source: Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci: Complete & Illustrated

“Happy will be those who give ear to the words of the dead: - The reading of good works and the observing of their precepts.”

Giving Reading Ears Good Work Observing

Book:The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

“Things severed shall be united and shall acquire of themselves such virtue that they shall restore to men their lost memory: - That is the papyrus sheets, which are formed out of several strips and preserve the memory of the thoughts and deeds of men.”

Men Lost Memories United Virtue Deeds Preserves Acquire Sheets Papyrus

Book:The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci