Edvard Munch — "From my rotting body, flowers shall grow, and I am in them, and that is eternity…"

"Every person is a universe."

"I remained immobile trembling from anguish and I heard bounce through nature an immense infinite scream."

"To those that labeled his work morose and too unsettling, Munch declared that 'I have tried to understand my life and its significance. I intended to help others do the same about their own lives'."

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

"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 painti…"