Author: Edvard Munch

Quotes

For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.

For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.

- Edvard Munch

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

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

- Edvard Munch

This 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.

This 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

Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.

Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.

- Edvard Munch

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

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

- Edvard Munch

Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.

Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.

- Edvard Munch

The colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.

The colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.

- Edvard Munch

I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.

I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.

- 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.

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

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