My breakthrough came very late in life, really only starting when I was 50...I had the strength for new deeds and ideas. — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life. — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
The colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas. — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life. — 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
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
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 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
I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
Your face encompasses the beauty of the whole earth. Your lips, as red as ripening fruit, gently part as if in pain.… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
My fear of life is necessary to me, as is my illness. Without anxiety and illness, I am a ship without a… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
My whole life has been spent walking by the side of a bottomless chasm, jumping from stone to stone. Sometimes I try… — 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
