- Rolf Stenersen: Once he was commissioned to paint the daughter of a shipowner. The shipowner didn't like the result. "She looks horrible!" he said. Munch replied: "Yes, she's ugly and horrible. But isn't the painting marvelous?"
- Edvard Munch (45): I once told Strindberg I hated everyone and everything except myself. Strindberg said I was lucky, because he hated everyone, himself included. He was further gone than me. His madness frightened me.