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"Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I pain..." — Edvard Munch
Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness.
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