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List of Edvard Munch Quotes

Explore our hand-picked selection of 72 inspiring quotes by Edvard Munch.

About Edvard Munch

  • Born: December 12, 1863
  • Died: January 23, 1944
  • Occupation: Painter
    • I felt as if there were invisible threads connecting us - i felt the invisible strands of her hair still winding around me - and thus as she disappeared completely beyond the sea - i still felt it, felt the pain where my heart was bleeding - because the threads could not be severed.
    Pain Heart Hair
    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.
    Spiritual Ordinary Diaries
    I was walking along a road one evening – on one side lay the city, and below me was the fjord. the sun went down – the clouds were stained red, as if with blood. i felt as though the whole of nature was screaming – it seemed as though i could hear a scream. i painted that picture, painting the clouds like real blood. the colours screamed.
    Real Clouds Blood
    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.
    Wall Artist Might
    But can they [great works] get rid of the worm that lies gnawing at the roots of my heart? no, never.
    Lying Heart Roots
    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.
    Color Doe Lines
    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.
    Should Have Rooms Accommodations
    Your face encompasses the beauty of the whole earth. your lips, as red as ripening fruit, gently part as if in pain. it is the smile of a corpse. now the hand of death touches life. the chain is forged that links the thousand families that are dead to the thousand generations to come.
    Pain Hands Generations
    Youth must go ahead and prosper. these young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.
    People Youth Paint
    Oil-painting is a developed technique. why go backwards?
    Artist Oil Technique
    The academies of art are nothing but great painting factories - those with talent are fed in at one end, and they come out as mechanical painting machines.
    Education Art Machines
    It was always my intention that the frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it.
    Artist Rooms Intention
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