“By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was se...” — Edvard Munch Quote

“By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life.”

“It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it.”

“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.”

“I love the English language, the colors of it, the many, many nuances, the different influences. I find German stilted, in a way, by comparison.”

“If I couldn't see the colors, now that would be a problem.”

“I go to somewhere I haven't been and just watch people and colors. That's my inspiration.”