Edvard Munch — "I admire how you let your body and my body die in your love—but you must forgive…"

"My art is a way of understanding myself."

"Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light."

"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."

"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."

"I felt as if there were invisible threads connecting us – I felt the invisible strands of her hair still winding around me – and thus as she disappeared completely beyond the sea – I still felt it, fe…"