Edvard Munch

I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell. ”

By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life. ”

The colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas. ”

Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life. ”

Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life. ”

I build a kind of wall between myself and t he model so that I can paint in peace behind it. Otherwise, she might say something that confuses and distracts me. ”

In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in Hell hanging over my head. ”

The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose. ”

A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself. ”

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul. ”