"Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls."

"I was stretched to the limit—nature was screaming in my blood… After that I gave up hope ever of being able to love again."

"An old wise man's soul has taken up residence in my dog."

"And I live with the dead – my mother, my sister [Sophie], my grandfather, my father [who died in 1889, when Munch was in France].. . Every day is the same – my friends have stopped coming – their laug…"

"I believe in the art that heals."