Edvard Munch Quotes
Top 44 wise famous quotes and sayings by Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch Famous Quotes & Sayings
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My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are? ... my art gives meaning to my life.
It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it.
The camera will never compete with the brush and palette until such time as photography can be taken to Heaven or Hell.
A work of art can only come from the interior of man. Art is the form of the image formed upon the nerves, heart, brain and eye of man.
But can they [great works] get rid of the worm that lies gnawing at the roots of my heart? No, never.
I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.
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.
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.
In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color.
Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye ... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.
The viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church.
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 prose.
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.
I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted ... the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked.
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.
My breakthrough came very late in life, really only starting when I was 50 ... I had the strength for new deeds and ideas.
A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.
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 my head.
Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.