"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
peaceView 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
posted in women
Other Quotes
Discover more inspiring quotes from our collection
"Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul."
-Edvard Munch
natureView 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
menView Quote
"I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell."
-Edvard Munch
fearView Quote
"Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life."
-Edvard Munch
deathView Quote
"Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life."
-Edvard Munch
deathView Quote
Same Category
More quotes in this category
"I don't think balance is something you get from someone else it's something women have to find from within. For me, finding balance is still a work in progress."
-Rachel Weisz
womenView Quote
"From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured."
-Samuel Richardson
womenView Quote
"I love women more than anything."
-Vin Diesel
womenView Quote
"When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman."
-Billie Jean King
womenView Quote
"The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue."
-Samuel Richardson
womenView Quote
"Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation."
-Samuel Richardson
womenView Quote