This scene, with the screaming man whose face is twisted in horror, seems an unreal figment of Munch’s fantasy. In fact, this frightening scene was inspired by a real place. Munch wrote in his diary: “One evening I was walking along a path, the city was on one side and the fjord below. I felt tired and ill. I stopped and looked out over the fjord—the sun was setting, and the clouds turning blood red. I sensed a scream passing through nature; it seemed to me that I heard the scream. I painted this picture, painted the clouds as actual blood. The color shrieked. This became The Scream.”