Edvard Munch - Soul Quotes

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When I write these notes, it is not to describe my own life. I am writing a study of the soul as I observe myself closely and use myself as an anatomical testing-ground. It would therefore be wrong to look on these notes as confessions. I have chosen – in accordance with Søren Kierkegaard – to split the work into two parts; the painter and his distraught friend the poet. Just as Leonarda da Vinci studied the recesses of the body and dissected human cadavers, I try from self-scrutiny to dissect what is the universal in the soul.

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No one in art has yet penetrated as far [as Dostoyevsky] into the mystical realms of the soul, towards the metaphysical, the subconsciousness, viewing the external reality of the world as merely a sign, a symbol of the spiritual and metaphysical.

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Nature is not only what is visible to the eye—it also shows the inner images of the soul—the images on the reverse side of the eyes.

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Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls.

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