Edvard Munch Quotes

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them, and that is eternity.

~ Edvard Munch

My whole life has been spent walking by the side of a bottomless chasm, jumping from stone to stone. Sometimes I try to leave my narrow path and join the swirling mainstream of life, but I always find myself drawn inexorably back towards the chasm's edge, and there I shall walk until the day I finally fall into the abyss.

~ Edvard Munch

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.

~ Edvard Munch

Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.

~ Edvard Munch

Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.

~ Edvard Munch

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

~ Edvard Munch

Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.

~ Edvard Munch

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

~ Edvard Munch

No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.

~ Edvard Munch

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

~ 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

The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.

~ Edvard Munch

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.

~ Edvard Munch