Edvard Munch

"I believe the modern age demands modern forms of expression."

"My work is incomplete because life is incomplete."

"I have dedicated myself to the pursuit of truth through art."

"The painting is a window into the painter's soul."

"I work in layers, much like how we construct our identities."

"My greatest fear is irrelevance, not death."

"The artist must maintain the ability to see like a child."

"I believe colors have their own language beyond representation."

"My life and my art are inseparable, almost indistinguishable."

"I paint not to escape reality but to engage it more deeply."

"I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best."

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

"The further one travels, the more one realizes how little one knows."

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

"My fear grows with the darkness."

"Art comes from joy... and pain. But mostly from pain."

"A scream pierces through nature."

"I believe that I am not myself these days; it is not I who feel what I feel."

"Beauty and ugliness are born together."

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious."

"I use my diseases as material for my art."

"One must follow the rules of the inner voice."

"In my art I try to explain life and its meaning to myself."

"I paint not what I see, but what I feel."

"The past is not dead; it lives within us."

"Jealousy is a disease of the mind."

"To love someone is to fight for them."

"I felt as if a hand had gripped my heart."

"There are things that words can never tell."

"The stronger personality will always dominate the weaker."