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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.
— Edvard Munch
Tags: picture, painting, simplicity, memories

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It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it.
— Edvard Munch
Tags: intention, room, frame, always
Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder.
— Edvard Munch
Tags: without, anxiety, like, ship
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
— Edvard Munch
Tags: body, grow, flowers, i-am, death
The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.
— Edvard Munch
Tags: rich, men, money, man
Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.
— Edvard Munch
Tags: colors, light, death, work
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