93 Quotes by Edvard Munch

What is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives.

At different moments you see with different eyes. You see differently in the morning than you do in the evening. In addition, how you see is also dependent on your emotional state. Because of this, a motif can be seen in many different ways, and this is what makes art interesting.

My fear of life is necessary to me, as is my illness. Without anxiety and illness, I am a ship without a rudder. My art is grounded in reflections over being different from others. My sufferings are part of my self and my art. They are indistinguishable from me, and their destruction would destroy my art. I want to keep those sufferings

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

My breakthrough came very late in life, really only starting when I was 50...I had the strength for new deeds and ideas.

All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart's blood. Art is your heart's blood.

The paintings are moods, impressions of the life of the soul, and together they represent one aspect of the battle, between man and woman, that is called love.

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

All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart’s blood. Art is your heart’s blood.