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

— Edvard Munch

Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.

— Edvard Munch

For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.

— Edvard Munch

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow, and I am in them and that is eternity.

— Edvard Munch

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow, and I am in them, and that is eternity.

— Edvard Munch

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.

— Edvard Munch

I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.

— Edvard Munch

I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.

— Edvard Munch

My whole life has been spent walking by the side of a bottomless chasm, jumping from stone to stone. Sometimes I try to leave my narrow path and join the swirling mainstream of life, but I always find myself drawn inexorably back towards the chasm's edge, and there I shall walk until the day I finally fall into the abyss.

— Edvard Munch

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.

— Edvard Munch