Edvard Munch — "Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with r…"

"Disease, insanity, and death were the black angels that guarded my cradle and accompanied me all my life."

"Certainly a chair can be just as interesting as a human being. But first the chair must be perceived by a human being… You should not paint the chair, but only what someone has felt about it."

"My whole life has been spent walking by the side of a bottomless chasm, jumping from stone to stone. Sometimes I try to leave my narrow path and join the swirling mainstream of life, but I always find…"

"My art is my life, and my life is my art."

"I see ghosts in the daylight."