Edvard Munch Art Is the Highest Form of Hope & Other Quotes by Artists by Phaidon (2016) p 23
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I do not believe in art which is not the compulsive result of humanity's urge to open its heart.

— Edvard Munch on Art

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Edvard Munch

About Edvard Munch

Edvard Munch (12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944) was a Norwegian Symbolist painter and printmaker, and an important forerunner of the Expressionistic art movement.