Edvard Munch

Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have

— Edvard Munch

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.

— Edvard Munch

I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.

— Edvard Munch

I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.

— Edvard Munch

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

— Edvard Munch

I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man's urge to open his heart

— Edvard Munch

When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.

— Edvard Munch

It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.

— Edvard Munch

The Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories - those with talent are fed in at one end, and they…

— Edvard Munch

Certainly a chair can be just as interesting as a human being. But first the chair must be perceived by a human…

— Edvard Munch

“ljubav je bozhansko osecanje i svaka nova zaljubljenost obavezno u sebi nosi i senku zhalosti zbog delica sopstvenog ja koje se daruje…

— Edvard Munch

The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and…

— Edvard Munch

If what you want to paint is the emotive mood in all its strength... then you must not sit and stare at…

— Edvard Munch

I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children…

— Edvard Munch

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

— Edvard Munch

The viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church.

— Edvard Munch

It would be quite amusing to preach a bit to all those people who for many years now have been looking at…

— Edvard Munch

Any number of holier-than-thou honorable realists walk around in the belief that they have accomplished something, simply because they tell you for…

— Edvard Munch

I was walking along a road one evening – on one side lay the city, and below me was the fjord. The…

— Edvard Munch

I was walking down the road with two friends when the sun set; suddenly, the sky turned as red as blood. I…

— Edvard Munch

At different moments you see with different eyes. You see differently in the morning than you do in the evening. In addition,…

— Edvard Munch

My whole life has been spent walking by the side of a bottomless chasm, jumping from stone to stone. Sometimes I try…

— Edvard Munch

Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no…

— Edvard Munch

To die is as if one's eyes had been put out and one cannot see anything any more. Perhaps it is like…

— Edvard Munch

“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that ia eternity.”

— Edvard Munch

In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in…

— Edvard Munch

Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.

— Edvard Munch

No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and…

— Edvard Munch

By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph…

— Edvard Munch

The camera will never compete with the brush and the palette, until such time as photographs can be taken in Heaven or…

— Edvard Munch

A work of art can only come from the interior of man. Art is the form of the image formed upon the…

— Edvard Munch

In my art I have tried to explain to myself life and its meaning. I have also tried to help others to…

— Edvard Munch

In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color

— Edvard Munch

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

The camera will never compete with the brush and palette until such time as photography can be taken to Heaven or Hell.

— Edvard Munch

Through my art I have tried to explain my life and its meaning. I have also intended to help others to clarify…

— Edvard Munch

When I paint, I never think of selling. People simply fail to understand that we paint in order to experiment and to…

— Edvard Munch

From the moment of my birth, the angels of anxiety, worry, and death stood at my side, followed me out when I…

— Edvard Munch

“From the moment of my birth, the angels of anxiety, worry, and death stood at my side, followed me out when I…

— Edvard Munch