This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution.

I was walking along a path with two friends - the sun was setting - suddenly the sky turned blood red - I paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fence - there was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city - my friends walked on, and I stood there trembling with anxiety - and I sensed an infinite scream passing through nature.

Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have

What is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives.

All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart's blood. Art is your heart's blood.

The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.

The way one sees is also dependent upon one's emotional state of mind. This is why a motif can be looked at in so many ways, and this is what makes art so interesting.