The camera will never compete with the brush and the palette, until such time as photographs can be taken in Heaven or Hell.
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 MUNCHI don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.
EDVARD MUNCHThere is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.
EDVARD MUNCHPhotography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
EDVARD MUNCHJust as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls.
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 MUNCHNo longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
EDVARD MUNCHAnybody who perceives colors can become a painter. It’s simply a question of whether or not one has felt anything and whether one has the courage to recount the things one has felt.
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 MUNCHYouth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.
EDVARD MUNCHAnd I would often wake up at night and stare widely into the room: Am I in Hell?
EDVARD MUNCHCertainly a chair can be just as interesting as a human being. But first the chair must be perceived by a human being… You should not paint the chair, but only what someone has felt about it.
EDVARD MUNCHOil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
EDVARD MUNCHThis kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer’s art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution.
EDVARD MUNCHColors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
EDVARD MUNCHWithout fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.
EDVARD MUNCH