Edvard Munch

"I paint to purge myself of emotion, not to display it."

"The night has always been my best time for creation."

"I see in every face the story of a life lived."

"Art must be honest, or it is merely decoration."

"I have found that illness grants a strange clarity to vision."

"Modernism is not about breaking with the past but understanding it."

"The canvas is my confessor; I tell it all my secrets."

"I paint what burns inside, what I cannot speak."

"Every ending contains the seed of a new beginning."

"The most beautiful moments are often the most fleeting."

"I work best when I am in dialogue with my own unconscious."

"Man is a mystery to himself, and this is what I try to capture."

"My portraits are not likenesses but revelations of character."

"I believe in the power of color to convey emotion directly."

"The artist must be willing to bleed on the canvas."

"I have spent my life trying to capture the fleeting moment."

"Life without passion is merely existing, not living."

"I am drawn to the grotesque and the beautiful equally."

"My work is an attempt to decode the language of the soul."

"I believe art should disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed."

"Every stroke of the brush is a decision, a commitment."

"The world needs artists who are willing to tell uncomfortable truths."

"I paint my dreams because waking life is too mundane."

"My influences come from within, not from the world around me."

"I have learned that vulnerability is the greatest strength in art."

"The unfinished work is sometimes more powerful than the finished."

"I seek to express the inner vibrations of the human experience."

"My art is not about technique but about feeling."

"I paint to save myself from drowning in my own consciousness."

"The viewer must bring their own pain to understand my work."