Edvard Munch

"I am enslaved by what I love."

"The eyes are the mirror of the troubled soul."

"I create because silence would kill me."

"The modern world is sick, and I am its mirror."

"I paint the fever in my blood."

"Nature is cold and indifferent to human suffering."

"I have sacrificed everything for my art."

"The truth hurts because it is necessary."

"I see the world through the eyes of a dreamer."

"My paintings are prayers to the unknown."

"I paint what I cannot speak."

"I am my own subject, I am the subject I know best. I am the subject I want to know better."

"Nature is not only all that is worth knowing. It is all that exists."

"A scream pierces through nature, and I try to paint the feeling rather than the fact."

"I felt as though the sky was suddenly bleeding, and I stood there trembling with anxiety."

"The more I suffer, the more I understand what I wish to express."

"Without anxiety and illness, I am a ship without a rudder."

"Most people marry their mother. That is their loss."

"Technique is important, but feeling is everything in art."

"I shall never be able to escape from myself. My art is myself."

"Every moment is a new beginning."

"The color or the sound alone is not as important as the emotion they convey."

"Beauty and depravity are not opposites but neighbors."

"When you stop trying to be everything to everyone, you can be everything to someone."

"I paint my own reality. The only reality I really know is my own experience."

"One must be able to work without needing to look at nature constantly."

"All that we are is the result of what we have thought."

"I have often felt that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day."

"Jealousy is perhaps not as bad as it is described. At least it proves you care."

"My business is not to paint what I see, but to paint what I see inside."