Edvard Munch, like French painter Paul Cezanne was imbued with an intense passion for life that also had a darker side. This intense personality is reflected in his yearning to create works that were passionate, not mere droll subject matter. His expressionistic, dark, and unique style was not only radical but very influential. The underlying emotion so prominent in his work is also reflected in this quote from Munch:
"My whole life has been spent walking by the side of a bottomless chasm, jumping from stone to stone. Somtimes 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. For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art. Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder."
-Edvard Munch (1863 -1944)
Edvard Munch 'Self-Portrait' 1882
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