All Edvard Munch Quotes
- The viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church. Church
- A work of art comes only from inside a human being. Art
- I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted ... the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked. Actual
- I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell. Fear
- The camera will never compete with the brush and palette until such time as photography can be taken to Heaven or Hell. Brush
- It would be quite amusing to preach a bit to all those people who for many years now have been looking at our paintings and… All
- At different moments you see with different eyes. You see differently in the morning than you do in the evening. In addition, how you see… Addition
- When I paint, I never think of selling. People simply fail to understand that we paint in order to experiment and to develop ourselves as… Develop
- I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man's urge to open his heart Art
- In my art I have tried to explain to myself life and its meaning. I have also tried to help others to clarify their lives. Art
- I was walking down the road with two friends when the sun set; suddenly, the sky turned as red as blood. I stopped and leaned… Behind
- A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself. All
- Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light. Color
- By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was… Color
- I build a kind of wall between myself and t he model so that I can paint in peace behind it. Otherwise, she might say… Behind
- I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in… Afterlife
- My father was temperamentally nervous and obsessively religious—to the point of psychoneurosis. From him I inherited the seeds of madness. The angels of fear, sorrow,… Angel
- I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart. Art
- I was walking along a road one evening – on one side lay the city, and below me was the fjord. The sun went down… Along
- In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color Color
- One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor All
- In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in Hell hanging over… Always Felt
- Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards? Backwards
- There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love. Battle
- Art comes from joy and pain...But mostly from pain. Art