Edvard Munch Quotes

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

Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash. - Edvard Munch

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

Painting 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 Munch

One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor. - Edvard Munch

Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards? - 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

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

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