Author: Edvard Munch

Quotes

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

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

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

I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.

I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.

- 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

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.

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

A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.

A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.

- 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.

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 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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