I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked.
EDVARD MUNCHI sense a scream passing through nature. I painted the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked.
EDVARD MUNCHThe camera will never compete with the brush and the palette, until such time as photographs can be taken in Heaven or Hell.
EDVARD MUNCHBut can they great works get rid of the worm that lies gnawing at the roots of my heart? No, never.
EDVARD MUNCHWithout fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.
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 MUNCHA person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.
EDVARD MUNCHI don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.
EDVARD MUNCHWithout fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.
EDVARD MUNCHIt was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it.
EDVARD MUNCHI build a kind of wall between myself and t he model so that I can paint in peace behind it. Otherwise, she might say something that confuses and distracts me.
EDVARD MUNCHJust as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls.
EDVARD MUNCHNature is not only all that is visible to the eye. it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
EDVARD MUNCHFor as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.
EDVARD MUNCHPhotography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
EDVARD MUNCHWhen I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
EDVARD MUNCH