Any 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 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 MUNCHDisease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.
EDVARD MUNCHThe rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.
EDVARD MUNCHWithout anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.
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 MUNCHThe way one sees is also dependent upon one’s emotional state of mind. This is why a motif can be looked at in so many ways, and this is what makes art so interesting.
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 MUNCHAnd I would often wake up at night and stare widely into the room: Am I in Hell?
EDVARD MUNCHSome colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.
EDVARD MUNCHMy will exceeds my talents.
EDVARD MUNCHWhat is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives.
EDVARD MUNCHArt comes from joy and pain, But mostly from pain.
EDVARD MUNCHA work of art comes only from inside a human being.
EDVARD MUNCHPainting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness.
EDVARD MUNCHWithout fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.
EDVARD MUNCHJust as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls.
EDVARD MUNCH