Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no… — Edvard Munch Details 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 Art Copy Share Image
My father was temperamentally nervous and obsessively religious—to the point of psychoneurosis. From him I inherited the seeds of madness. The angels… — Edvard Munch Angel Copy Share Image
Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul. — Edvard Munch Eye 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 Cradle Copy Share Image
One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor — Edvard Munch Chapel Copy Share Image
“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that ia eternity.” — Edvard Munch Flower Copy Share Image
It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for… — Edvard Munch Intention Copy Share Image
I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man's urge to open his heart — Edvard Munch Art Copy Share Image
A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself. — Edvard Munch Painting Copy Share Image
If what you want to paint is the emotive mood in all its strength... then you must not sit and stare at… — Edvard Munch Ifs 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 Art Copy Share Image
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 Abandoned Copy Share Image
“From the moment of my birth, the angels of anxiety, worry, and death stood at my side, followed me out when I… — Edvard Munch Death Copy Share Image
Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light. — Edvard Munch Death Copy Share Image
The camera will never compete with the brush and the palette, until such time as photographs can be taken in Heaven or… — Edvard Munch Brushes Copy Share Image
Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash. — Edvard Munch Clash Copy Share Image
From the moment of my birth, the angels of anxiety, worry, and death stood at my side, followed me out when I… — Edvard Munch Angel Copy Share Image
Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars. — Edvard Munch Boat Copy Share Image
I was walking down the road with two friends when the sun set; suddenly, the sky turned as red as blood. I… — Edvard Munch Behinds Copy Share Image
I build a kind of wall between myself and t he model so that I can paint in peace behind it. Otherwise,… — Edvard Munch I can Copy Share Image
By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph… — Edvard Munch Lines Copy Share Image
Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls. — Edvard Munch Anatomy Copy Share Image
