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It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.
Edvard Munch
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Edvard Munch
Age: 80 †
Born: 1863
Born: January 1
Died: 1944
Died: January 1
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E. Munch
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The viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church.
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My breakthrough came very late in life, really only starting when I was 50...I had the strength for new deeds and ideas.
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I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell.
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My father was temperamentally nervous and obsessively religious—to the point of psychoneurosis. From him I inherited the seeds of madness. The angels of fear, sorrow, and death stood by my side since the day I was born.
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In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in Hell hanging over my head
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When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
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I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.
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