When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
EDVARD MUNCHWhen I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
EDVARD MUNCHWithout anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.
EDVARD MUNCHAll art, literature, and music must be born in your heart’s blood. Art is your heart’s blood.
EDVARD MUNCHI sense a scream passing through nature. I painted the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked.
EDVARD MUNCHI do not paint what I see, but what I saw.
EDVARD MUNCHI have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.
EDVARD MUNCHOil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
EDVARD MUNCHI was walking along the road with two friends. The sun set. I felt a tinge of melancholy. Suddenly the sky became a bloody red. I stood there, trembling with fright. And I felt a loud, unending scream piercing nature.
EDVARD MUNCHDeath is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.
EDVARD MUNCHThe Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories – those with talent are fed in at one end, and they come out as mechanical painting machines.
EDVARD MUNCHMy will exceeds my talents.
EDVARD MUNCHMy art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are? My art gives meaning to my life.
EDVARD MUNCHI learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell.
EDVARD MUNCHThere is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.
EDVARD MUNCHWithout fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.
EDVARD MUNCHWhen I paint, I never think of selling. People simply fail to understand that we paint in order to experiment and to develop ourselves as we strive for greater heights.
EDVARD MUNCH