Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.
EDVARD MUNCHWithout fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.
EDVARD MUNCHIn my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in Hell hanging over my head.
EDVARD MUNCHAll art, literature, and music must be born in your heart’s blood. Art is your heart’s blood.
EDVARD MUNCHBy painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life.
EDVARD MUNCHOil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
EDVARD MUNCHDisease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.
EDVARD MUNCHWithout anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.
EDVARD MUNCHA person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.
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 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 MUNCHFrom my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
EDVARD MUNCHPhotography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
EDVARD MUNCHThe notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose.
EDVARD MUNCHOne can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.
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 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 MUNCH