I was walking along the road with two friends. The sun was setting. I felt a breath of… — Edvard Munch

I was walking along the road with two friends. The sun was setting. I felt a breath of melancholy-Suddenly the sky turned blood-red. I stopped, and leaned against the railing, deathly tired- looking out across the flaming clouds that hung like blood and a sword over the blue-black fjord and town. My friends walked on-I stood there, trembling with fear. And I sensed a great, infinite scream pass through nature.

Describing the experience that led him to paint "The Scream".