Edvard Munch

"Gallery Munch - Løten"

"Munch at artcyclopedia"

"One evening I came to have a discussion with my father on the subject how long unbelievers are tormented in Hell. I maintained that no sinner could be so guilty that God would let him suffer longer th…"

"What is art really? The outcome of dissatisfaction with life, the point of impact for the creative force, the continual movement of life.. ..in my art I attempt to explain life and its meaning to myse…"

"it was the period I think of as the age of the pillow.. .What I wanted to bring out - is that which cannot be measured - I wanted to bring out the tired movement in the eyelids - the lips must look as…"

"By painting colours and lines and forms seen in a quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does."

"At first when I saw 'The Sick Child' her pallid face and the vivid red hair against the pillow – I saw something that vanished when I tried to paint it. I ended up with a picture on the canvas which, …"

"One sunny spring day I heard the music coming down Karl Johan and it filled me with joy. The spring, the sun, the music, all blended together to make me shiver with pleasure. The music added colour to…"