93 Quotes by 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.

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

I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for its accommodation and the funds for its completion were available.

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

In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color

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

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.

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.