Edvard Munch

Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes. ”

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. ”

This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution. ”

I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for its accommodation and the funds for its completion were available. ”

The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men. ”

To die is as if one's eyes had been put out and one cannot see anything any more. Perhaps it is like being shut in a cellar. One is abandoned by all. They have slammed the door and are gone. One does not see anything and notices only the damp smell of putrefaction. ”

I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell. ”

For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art. ”

Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder. ”

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. ”