“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.” DoeHas BeensPlayEarthDesireArtistGivenRolesCircumstancesUniqueFilledIllProfessionSickness Book:Encounter in Space: Double Images in the Graphic Art of Edvard Munch Source: Encounter in Space: Double Images in the Graphic Art of Edvard Munch
“There is evil poured upon the earth from the overflowings of corruption-- Sickness, and poverty, and pain, and guilt, and madness, and sorrow; But, as the water from a fountain riseth and sinketh to its level, Ceaselessly toileth justice to equalize the lots of men.” MenEarthPainEvilWaterJusticeLevelsPovertySorrowMadnessGuiltCorruptionSicknessFountain Author:William Hazlitt