Edvard Munch Quotes, Status, and Thoughts

Art comes from joy and pain, But mostly from pain.

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.

I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.

I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.

A work of art comes only from inside a human being.

My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are, my art gives meaning to my life.

Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls.

I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted ... the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked.

Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.

I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man's urge to open his heart

My will exceeds my talents.

And I would often wake up at night and stare widely into the room: Am I in Hell?

Photography is an art which touches and grips one's own heart's blood.

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

Without anxiety and illness, I would have been like a ship without a rudder.

Some colours reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.

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

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

It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.

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

When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.

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