"All art, literature, and music must be born in the heart and soul of man."

"Disease, insanity, and death were the black angels that guarded my cradle and accompanied me all my life."

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

"To those that labeled his work morose and too unsettling, Munch declared that 'I have tried to understand my life and its significance. I intended to help others do the same about their own lives'."

"Nothing ceases to exist – there is no example of this in nature.. . There is an entire mass of things that cannot rationally explained. There are newborn thoughts that have not yet found form. How foo…"