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
Born: 1863 - Died: 1944
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: Norway
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.
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Quotes about love:
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.
Quotes about painting:
It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
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.
Never forget that it will be enough for a political, economic or religious crisis for the rights of women to be called into question. These rights are never acquired. You will have to remain vigilant throughout your life.
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
Quotes for: pain
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
I have only one passion, that for light, in the name of humanity which has suffered so much and which has the right to happiness.
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