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Quote of Edvard Munch - From my rotting body, flowers shall...


Biography - Edvard Munch:

Norwegian painter and printmaker.
Born: 1863 - Died: 1944
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: Norway
Norway

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



Translation

Translation

(German, French)



German
Aus meinem verwesenden Körper sollen Blumen wachsen, und ich bin in ihnen und das ist Ewigkeit.

French
De mon corps pourrissant pousseront des fleurs, je serai en elles, et c'est cela l'éternité.




See also 

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Quotes for: body


Quotes

Quotes for: body


Action is the language of the body and should harmonize with the spirit within.





A healthy mind in a healthy body.





The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.





There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.





Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.





With most people the heart grows old with the body.











Quotes for: eternity


Quotes

Quotes about eternity:


To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.






It is found again.
What? Eternity.
It is the sea
Gone with the sun.






Time is the moving image of eternity.
Plato - Timaeus / 





Time, that moving image of an immovable eternity.





Be humanity evermore our goal.





Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.











Quotes for: flower


Quotes

Quotes for: flower


To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.






I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.





"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."





Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.





Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.





Earth laughs in flowers.











Quotes

Edvard Munch also said...


Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.





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.





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.





Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.





I build a kind of wall between myself and the model so that I can paint in peace behind it. Otherwise, she might say something that confuses and distracts me.





I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.












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