Edvard Munch Quotes
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Edvard Munch 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.
— Edvard Munch
It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it.
— Edvard Munch
The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.
— Edvard Munch
All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart's blood. Art is your heart's blood.
— Edvard Munch
The camera will never compete with the brush and palette until such time as photography can be taken to Heaven or Hell.
— Edvard Munch
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.
— Edvard Munch
It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.
— Edvard Munch
The colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
— Edvard Munch
Art comes from joy and pain ... But mostly from pain.
— Edvard Munch
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But can they [great works] get rid of the worm that lies gnawing at the roots of my heart? No, never.
— Edvard Munch
A work of art comes only from inside a human being.
— Edvard Munch
The viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church.
— Edvard Munch
One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.
— Edvard Munch
In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color.
— Edvard Munch
I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.
— Edvard Munch
Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye ... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
— Edvard Munch
Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.
— Edvard Munch
Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls.
— Edvard Munch
What is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives.
— Edvard Munch
I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted ... the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked.
— Edvard Munch
My will exceeds my talents.
— Edvard Munch
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.
— Edvard Munch
Dark Jar Tin Zoo's face is sallow, his cheeks sunk in, and he looks like Edvard Munch's "The Scream," only less colorful.
— Jarod Kintz
Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
— Edvard Munch
My breakthrough came very late in life, really only starting when I was 50 ... I had the strength for new deeds and ideas.
— Edvard Munch
A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.
— Edvard Munch
Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.
— Edvard Munch
Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.
— Edvard Munch
I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.
— Edvard Munch
