Quotes by Norwegian authors

"To die is as if one's eyes had been put out and one cannot see anything any more. Perhaps it is like being shut in a cellar. One is abandoned by all. They have slammed the door and are gone. One does not see anything and notices only the damp smell of putrefaction"

"This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution"

"Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?"

"I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for its accommodation and the funds for its completion were available"

"I find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as Christians, or at any rate many religious people, conceive it, believing that the conversations with relatives and friends interrupted here on earth will be continued in the hereafter"

"I went to work in an office and learned, among other lessons, to do things I did not care for, and to do them well. Before I left this office, two of my books had already been published"

"I rolled myself up into a tight ball of resistance and it was thus that I went through my school years"

"Every day I spend time on the treadmill. I am walking faster, stronger and harder than I was two months ago"

"I shall take all the troubles of the past, all the disappointments, all the headaches, and I shall pack them in a bag and throw them in the East River"

"Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same thing"

"Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life"