Edvard Munch
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which has transcended
all exterior reality

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to become the first
expressionist painting of "feeling"

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in the history of Western art,
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is strongly attacked
both by the Kristiania public

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and by its conservative press.
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The public won't accept
that sort of madness.

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Every time one passes
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this painting people are standing
laughing at it.

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Some people always set themselves up
as guardians over others.

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In literature they decide
what is decent and indecent.

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Says one colleague to Munch,
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"I think that your painting is shit."
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Asks another,
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"What are all those strokes for?
It looks like it's raining."

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A human life is decent but to write
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about human sexual life is indecent.
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Another friend tells Munch
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that he will go mad
if he continues in this way.

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As long as I can write,
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I want to combat society
and its rules

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in order to create a society
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in which literature is free.
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Who has the right to stop anyone
writing about his emotional life?

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No one!
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I want life, that which is alive.
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What the hell do I care whether
the chair is properly made?

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What I wanted to bring out is
what cannot be measured.

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The tired movement
in the eyes, in the eyelids,

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the lips must look as though
they whispered something.

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It must have been painted
by one almost mentally deranged


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