93 Quotes by Edvard Munch

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

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

To die is as if one's eyes had been put out and one cannot see anything any more. Perhaps it is like being shut in a cellar. One is abandoned by all. They have slammed the door and are gone. One does not see anything and notices only the damp smell of putrefaction.

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.

Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.

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

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

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

I find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as Christians, or at any rate many religious people, conceive it, believing that the conversations with relatives and friends interrupted here on earth will be continued in the hereafter.