Edvard Munch — "The soul is like a vast, dark forest."
The soul is like a vast, dark forest.
Get This Quote & Author's Image Illustrated On:
Click any product to generate a realistic preview. Up to 3 at a time.
* Initial load can take up to 90 seconds — revising the preview in another color is nearly instant.
Kitchen
Apparel
Other
More from Edvard Munch
"The trees are like spectres, the sky is like a bleeding wound."
"What I am seeking is not the real and not the unreal but rather the unconscious, the mystery of the instinctive in the human race."
"The true purpose of art is to make us feel alive."
"It is so strange to be entirely gone that it must that the hour must come when you can say to yourself now you have 10 now 5 minutes left and then it will happen and you shall feel how little by littl…"
"For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep sense of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art."
About Edvard Munch (1863-1944)
Norwegian Expressionist painter whose The Scream (1893) became the iconic image of modern existential dread. Closely associated with James Ensor (Belgian Expressionist peer) and Egon Schiele (younger Expressionist heir). For an intellectual contrast, see Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French Impressionist (1841-1919) — Munch and Renoir were exact contemporaries painting the same Belle Époque from opposite emotional poles — Renoir's dappled-light bourgeois pleasure and Munch's anxiety-soaked bourgeois terror are the late-19th-century painting's two halves. The same world; the cleanest emotional inversion.