I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw. — Edvard Munch
Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye… it also includes the inner pictures of the soul. — Edvard Munch
No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who — Edvard Munch
A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself. — Edvard Munch
Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light. — Edvard Munch
Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life. — 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. — Edvard Munch
I build a kind of wall between myself and t he model so that I can paint in peace behind it. — Edvard Munch
I find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as christians, or at any rate many religious people — Edvard Munch
I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment — Edvard Munch
I should have considered it wrong to have finished the frieze before the room for its accommodation and — Edvard Munch
In common with michelangelo and rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color. — Edvard Munch
In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment — Edvard Munch
It was always my intention that the frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it. — Edvard Munch
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. — Edvard Munch
One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the sistine chapel was above all a sculptor. — Edvard Munch
Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. — Edvard Munch
Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life. — Edvard Munch
The colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas. — Edvard Munch
The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences — Edvard Munch
The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men. — Edvard Munch
Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes. — Edvard Munch