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I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.
— Edvard Munch
painter, graphic artist, printmaker, draftsperson, architectural draftsperson
1863 – 1944
I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.
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.
My whole life has been spent walking by the side of a bottomless chasm, jumping from stone to stone. Sometimes I try to leave my narrow path and join the swirling mainstream of life, but I always find myself drawn inexorably back towards the chasm's edge, and there I shall walk until the day I finally fall into the abyss.
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them, and that is eternity.
The colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
