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 MUNCHA 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 MUNCHOil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
EDVARD MUNCHColors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
EDVARD MUNCHThere is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.
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 find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as Christians, or at any rate many religious people, conceive it, believing that the conversations with relatives and friends interrupted here on earth will be continued in the hereafter.
EDVARD MUNCHNature is not only all that is visible to the eye. it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
EDVARD MUNCHAll art, literature, and music must be born in your heart’s blood. Art is your heart’s blood.
EDVARD MUNCHA person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.
EDVARD MUNCHAny number of holier-than-thou honorable realists walk around in the belief that they have accomplished something, simply because they tell you for the hundredth time that a field is green and a red-painted house is painted red.
EDVARD MUNCHI should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for its accommodation and the funds for its completion were available.
EDVARD MUNCHI painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.
EDVARD MUNCHThrough my art I have tried to explain my life and its meaning. I have also intended to help others to clarify their lives.
EDVARD MUNCHWhen I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
EDVARD MUNCHDisease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.
EDVARD MUNCHIf what you want to paint is the emotive mood in all its strength then you must not sit and stare at everything and depict it exactly as one sees it.
EDVARD MUNCH