"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
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"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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"Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul."
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"I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell."
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"Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life."
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"Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life."
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"When I sing, I have a sense of peace, I feel like my brain turns off, and I become the core person of who I am - the essence of me. I feel connected to whatever is out there. It's almost like I leave my body and get to watch."
-Michelle Branch
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"The Israeli people must be free to live in peace and security."
-Chuck Hagel
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"As they say, one thing led to another, and, ultimately, the British and Irish governments asked me to serve as chairman of the peace negotiations, which ironically began six years ago this week."
-George J. Mitchell
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"On Memorial Day, I don't want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as writers and poets, who started preaching peace, men and women who have made this world a kinder place to live."
-Eric Burdon
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"Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out."
-Richard Cobden
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"I therefore declare, that if you wish any remission of the taxation which falls upon the homes of the people of England and Wales, you can only find it by reducing the great military establishments, and diminishing the money paid to fighting men in time of peace."
-Richard Cobden
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