When I paint, I never think of selling. People simply fail to understand that we paint in order to experiment and to… — Edvard Munch Experiments Copy Share Image
For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express… — Edvard Munch Anxiety 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 Academy Copy Share Image
I was walking along a road one evening – on one side lay the city, and below me was the fjord. The… — Edvard Munch Blood Copy Share Image
I was walking along the road with two friends. The sun set. I felt a tinge of melancholy. Suddenly the sky became… — Edvard Munch Bloody Copy Share Image
The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and… — Edvard Munch Lengthy Copy Share Image
I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted ... the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked. — Edvard Munch Art Copy Share Image
Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes. — Edvard Munch Paint Copy Share Image
But can they [great works] get rid of the worm that lies gnawing at the roots of my heart? No, never. — Edvard Munch Great work 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 Anxiety 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 Amusing 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 Church 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 Art Copy Share Image
It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes. — Edvard Munch Holes Copy Share Image
I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart. — Edvard Munch Art Copy Share Image
I find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as Christians, or at any rate many religious people, conceive it, believing that… — Edvard Munch Afterlife 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 Abyss Copy Share Image
The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men. — Edvard Munch Men Copy Share Image
I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw. — Edvard Munch Music 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 Art 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 Art Copy Share Image
All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart's blood. Art is your heart's blood. — Edvard Munch Art 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 Art Copy Share Image
And I would often wake up at night and stare widely into the room: Am I in Hell? — Edvard Munch Hell Copy Share Image
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