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Peace

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

Quote of the Day

The more I do bookstores, the more people come up to me from church groups. I spoke at Pittsburg State College and had 2 or 3 ministers and book groups from a couple of churches.

- Anita Diament

Other quotes by Edvard Munch

Anxiety

Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder.

- Edvard Munch

Life

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.

- Edvard Munch

Feeling Art

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

Portraits

A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.

- Edvard Munch

Music

I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.

- Edvard Munch

Art

This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution.

- Edvard Munch

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Peace Now Years

Years ago the public used to hound me but now I can go shopping in peace.

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Peace Man

A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.

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Peace End Time

The time has come to put an end to the fratricidal war and to recover at last peace and accord.

- Bao Dai

Greed Peace

The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many toward the selfishness, greed and the neglect of the few.

- John L. Lewis

Peace First

First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

- Thomas Kempis

Peace Sense First Will

Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first.

- William Glasser