I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart. — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness. — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
I build a kind of wall between myself and t he model so that I can paint in peace behind it. Otherwise,… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
The Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories - those with talent are fed in at one end, and they… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart's blood. Art is your heart's blood. — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
If what you want to paint is the emotive mood in all its strength... then you must not sit and stare at… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light. — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
The viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church. — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes. — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
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… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
Anybody who perceives colors can become a painter. It's simply a question of whether or not one has felt anything and whether… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
I have been given a unique role to play on this earth: given to me by a life filled with sickness, ill-starred… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
At different moments you see with different eyes. You see differently in the morning than you do in the evening. In addition,… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
When I paint, I never think of selling. People simply fail to understand that we paint in order to experiment and to… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
It would be quite amusing to preach a bit to all those people who for many years now have been looking at… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
What is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives. — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself. — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are? ... my art gives meaning to my life. — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
A work of art can only come from the interior of man. Art is the form of the image formed upon the… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
In my art I have tried to explain to myself life and its meaning. I have also tried to help others to… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
The way one sees is also dependent upon one's emotional state of mind. This is why a motif can be looked at… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
Through my art I have tried to explain my life and its meaning. I have also intended to help others to clarify… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man's urge to open his heart — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes. — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
When I paint, I never think of selling. People simply fail to understand that we paint in order to experiment and to develop ourselves… — Edvard Munch Copy Share
For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my… — Edvard Munch Copy Share
The Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories - those with talent are fed in at one end, and they come out… — Edvard Munch Copy Share
I was walking along a road one evening – on one side lay the city, and below me was the fjord. The sun went… — Edvard Munch Copy Share
I was walking along the road with two friends. The sun set. I felt a tinge of melancholy. Suddenly the sky became a bloody… — Edvard Munch Copy Share
The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems… — Edvard Munch Copy Share
I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted ... the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked. — Edvard Munch Copy Share
Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes. — Edvard Munch Copy Share
But can they [great works] get rid of the worm that lies gnawing at the roots of my heart? No, never. — Edvard Munch Copy Share
My fear of life is necessary to me, as is my illness. Without anxiety and illness, I am a ship without a rudder. My… — Edvard Munch Copy Share
It would be quite amusing to preach a bit to all those people who for many years now have been looking at our paintings… — Edvard Munch Copy Share
The viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church. — Edvard Munch Copy Share
The way one sees is also dependent upon one's emotional state of mind. This is why a motif can be looked at in so… — Edvard Munch Copy Share
It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes. — Edvard Munch Copy Share
