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

Fra min rådnende kropp skal blomster vokse, og jeg er i dem, og det er evigheten.

Edvard Munch

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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

I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.

Illness, insanity, and death were the dark angels that kept watch over my cradle.

Related Quotes

Death is nothing to us; for what has been dissolved has no sensation, and what has no sensation is nothing to us.

-- Epicurus

Life being only a fraction of a second in eternity, one should at least make it bearable.

-- Paul Gauguin

Art is whatever the artist says it is.

-- Marcel Duchamp

I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.

-- Edvard Munch