All Edvard Munch Quotes
- I have been given a unique role to play on this earth: given to me by a life filled with sickness, ill-starred circumstances and my… Artist
- Certainly a chair can be just as interesting as a human being. But first the chair must be perceived by a human being... You should… Chair
- Anybody who perceives colors can become a painter. It's simply a question of whether or not one has felt anything and whether one has the… Anybody
- But can they [great works] get rid of the worm that lies gnawing at the roots of my heart? No, never. Get Rid
- Any number of holier-than-thou honorable realists walk around in the belief that they have accomplished something, simply because they tell you for the hundredth time… Accomplished
- And I would often wake up at night and stare widely into the room: Am I in Hell? Hell
- Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls. Anatomy
- My will exceeds my talents. Exceeds
- From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity. Body
- No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love. Art
- For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art. Anxiety
- Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life. Angel
- I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw. Color
- Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul. All
- Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I… Adding
- Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash. Another Others
- I find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as Christians, or at any rate many religious people, conceive it, believing that the conversations with… Afterlife
- I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for its accommodation and the funds for its completion were available. Accommodation
- It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it. Architectural
- The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in… Diaries