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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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I do not believe in art which is not the compulsive result of humanity's urge to open its heart.

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

By painting colours and lines and forms seen in a quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does.

Could only have been painted by a madman.

My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are? ..my art gives meaning to my life.

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