Edvard Munch quotes
Born
December 1863, Ådalsbruk, Løten, Norway.
Died
January 23, 1944.
Occupation
Painter.
Edvard Munch was a Norwegian painter.
When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
– Edvard Munch
A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.
– Edvard Munch
Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.
– Edvard Munch
I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.
– Edvard Munch
One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.
– Edvard Munch
The colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
– Edvard Munch
Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder.
– Edvard Munch
Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.
– Edvard Munch
Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye… it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
– 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
Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.
– Edvard Munch
The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.
– Edvard Munch
Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.
– Edvard Munch
Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.
– Edvard Munch
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
– Edvard Munch
Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
– 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
I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.
– Edvard Munch
No 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 Munch
It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it.
– Edvard Munch
In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color.
– Edvard Munch