Color Quote by Edvard Munch

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

— Edvard Munch

For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my…

— Edvard Munch

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

— Edvard Munch

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

— Edvard Munch

I was walking along the road with two friends. The sun set. I felt a tinge of melancholy. Suddenly the sky became a bloody…

— Edvard Munch

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

— Edvard Munch

A work of art comes only from inside a human being.

— Edvard Munch

I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted ... the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked.

— Edvard Munch

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

— Edvard Munch

But can they [great works] get rid of the worm that lies gnawing at the roots of my heart? No, never.

— Edvard Munch

My fear of life is necessary to me, as is my illness. Without anxiety and illness, I am a ship without a rudder. My…

— Edvard Munch

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

— Edvard Munch