I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.
Sykdom, galskap og død var de svarte engler som sto vakt ved min vugge.
Artists
Edvard Munch
Born in Norway in 1863, Munch created The Scream, an icon of modern anxiety. His exploration of illness, death, and emotional extremity made him a forerunner of Expressionism.
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Edvard Munch's Other Quotes
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Death is nothing to us; for what has been dissolved has no sensation, and what has no sensation is nothing to us.
-- Epicurus
Despair is a sickness of the self, a sickness unto death.
-- Søren Kierkegaard
Art is whatever the artist says it is.
-- Marcel Duchamp
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
-- Edvard Munch