93 Quotes by Edvard Munch

In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in Hell hanging over my head

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.

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.

It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it.

By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life.

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

We're still hopeful, but we are no longer that confident. The chances of finding the paintings diminish with time and already a lot of time has passed,

The way one sees is also dependent upon one's emotional state of mind. This is why a motif can be looked at in so many ways, and this is what makes art so interesting.