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What does it all matter as long as the wounds fit the arrows? - Kafka

It is the moment when all the world stands still... Your face contains all earth's beauty. Your lips, crimson red like your ripening fruit, glide form each other as if in pain... A corpse's smile... New life shakes the hand of death. The chain binding the thousand dead generations to the thousand generations to come is linked together. -Edward Munch

p22 Munch - The Scream by Reinhold Heller

"The painter should depict not only what he sees before him, but also what he sees inside himself... Close your physical eyes so that you see your picture first with your spiritual eye. Then bring forth what you saw inside you so that it works on others from the exterior to their spirit."

p24 Much the Scream - Casper David Friedrich

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"Woman is the earth, anxious, always waiting to be inseminated if man is willing. She is anxious for the insemination to take place at the proper time, and anxious to have the seed grow." Munch p39

...the content of his new monumental art; subjective psychological experiences, raised to the level of universal statements analyzing the soul of modern man.

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"Degas declared that he study of nature is meaningless, since the art of painting is a question of conventions..."

Berthe Morisot in her notebook

"What I do is the result of reflection and study of the great masters; of inspiration, spontaneity, temperament... I know nothing." Degas quoted by George Moore: Impressions and Opinions 1981 p313

Omne Animal Post Coitum Triste - Aristotle

(Every animal is sad after intercourse)