Edvard Munch
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a lyric poet in colour.
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He feels colours, feels in colours,
but he does not see them.

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He sees sorrow
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and crying and brooding
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and withering.
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"The river flows so slowly
Flows and flows and flows.

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"And daylight goes, goes.
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"Night will soon be here.
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"The light shines out of my room.
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"Turns to regard me
In silence and in anxiety.

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"It knows he is coming."
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Was it that she was so much
more beautiful than others?

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No, I don't even know
if she was beautiful.

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Her mouth was big.
She could be ugly.

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In my article in the Mercure de France
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I refer to this work by Gauguin.
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I explain that it is the duty
of the new artist to choose between

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the numerous elements
which make up objectivity.

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He is also entitled to distort, to emphasize,
to exaggerate line, form and colour

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in accordance with his personal vision
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and individual subjectivity.

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