Quote of Edvard Munch - No longer shall I paint interiors...

Biography - Edvard Munch:

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

Quote

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

Translation

(French, German)

Je ne peindrai plus d'intérieurs et les gens en train de lire, et les femmes à leur tricot. Je peindrai des êtres qui respirent, sentent, souffrent et aiment.”
Edvard Munch

Es sollen nicht mehr Interieurs mit lesenden Männer und strickenden Frauen gemalt werden. Es müssen lebende Menschen sein, die atmen, fühlen, leiden und lieben.”
Edvard Munch

Quotes about love:

To live means to love, but above all, to love life.”
Blanche Pierson

Intelligence has value only in the service of love.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Love, and do what you will.”
Augustine of Hippo - Homilies on the First Epistle of John

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.”
Augustine of Hippo

Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.”
Carl Gustav Jung

Where there is love there is life.”
Mahatma Gandhi

All about love...

Quotes about painting:

Eloquence is a painting of thought.”
Blaise Pascal

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”
Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray

If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.”
Pablo Picasso

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.”
Pablo Picasso

Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen.”
Leonardo da Vinci

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.”
Jean de La Bruyere

All about painting...

Quotes about woman:

In fact, as a woman, I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.”
Virginia Woolf

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.”
Simone de Beauvoir

Woman

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.”
Virginia Woolf

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.”
Virginia Woolf

Woman

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
Virginia Woolf

Within the given world, it is up to man to make the reign of freedom prevail; to carry off this supreme victory, men and women must, among other things and above and beyond their natural differentiations, affirm their brotherhood unequivocally.”
Simone de Beauvoir

All about woman...

Edvard Munch also said...

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

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

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.”
Edvard Munch

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

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

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

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