I 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 MUNCH

black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for its accommodation and the funds for its completion were available.

Related Topics

Bagwalas

The 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 MUNCH

The 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 MUNCH

Note Ordinary
I 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 MUNCH

I 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 MUNCH

Loud Pierce Scream
Art comes from joy and pain, But mostly from pain.

EDVARD MUNCH

Art comes from joy and pain, But mostly from pain.
EDVARD MUNCH
Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.
EDVARD MUNCH

Prosperity
In 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 MUNCH

In 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 MUNCH
My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are? My art gives meaning to my life.

EDVARD MUNCH

My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are? My art gives meaning to my life.
EDVARD MUNCH

Meaning
And I would often wake up at night and stare widely into the room: Am I in Hell?

EDVARD MUNCH

And I would often wake up at night and stare widely into the room: Am I in Hell?
EDVARD MUNCH

Stare
One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.
EDVARD MUNCH

Easy Sculptor
I 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 MUNCH

I 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 MUNCH

Dangerous
By 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 MUNCH

By 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 MUNCH

Color Form Vibrate
There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.

EDVARD MUNCH

There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.
EDVARD MUNCH
The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.

EDVARD MUNCH

The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.
EDVARD MUNCH

Steal
I 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 MUNCH

I 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 MUNCH

Distract Model
All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart’s blood. Art is your heart’s blood.

EDVARD MUNCH

All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart’s blood. Art is your heart’s blood.
EDVARD MUNCH
But can they great works get rid of the worm that lies gnawing at the roots of my heart? No, never.

EDVARD MUNCH

But can they great works get rid of the worm that lies gnawing at the roots of my heart? No, never.
EDVARD MUNCH

Root
Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye. it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.

EDVARD MUNCH

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye. it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
EDVARD MUNCH

Visible

Created by Minimalist Quotes