Edvard Munch Quote

I have been given a unique role to play on this earth: given to me by a life filled with sickness, ill-starred circumstances and my profession as an artist. It is a life that contains nothing that resembles happiness, and moreover does not even desire happiness.


Encounter in Space: Double Images in the Graphic Art of Edvard Munch (ed. 1986)


I have been given a unique role to play on this earth: given to me by a life filled with sickness, ill-starred circumstances and my profession as an...

I have been given a unique role to play on this earth: given to me by a life filled with sickness, ill-starred circumstances and my profession as an...

I have been given a unique role to play on this earth: given to me by a life filled with sickness, ill-starred circumstances and my profession as an...

I have been given a unique role to play on this earth: given to me by a life filled with sickness, ill-starred circumstances and my profession as an...