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Quote by Edvard Munch

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

Quote by Edvard Munch

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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

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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.”

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“Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.”

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“I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.”

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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.”

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

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“I find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as Christians, or at any rate many religious people, conceive it, believing that the conversations with relatives and friends interrupted here on earth will be continued in the hereafter.”

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“I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for its accommodation and the funds for its completion were available.”

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