Edvard Munch

"The pause during which the entire world halts in its orbit. Your face embodies all the beauty of the world. Your lips, as crimson as a ripe fruit, are half open as if to express pain. A corpse's smile. Here life and death shake hands. The chain that links thousands of past generations to the thousands to come has been meshed."

"In my art I have tried to explain to myself life and its meaning I have also tried to help others to clarify their lives." Edvard Munch