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.

Quote by Edvard Munch

Topics: Edvard Munch Quotes

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

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

The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly...

The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly...

I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for...

I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for...

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

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

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

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

By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to...

By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to...

For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of...

For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of...

This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is...

This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is...

To die is as if one's eyes had been put out and one cannot see...

To die is as if one's eyes had been put out and one cannot see...

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

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

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

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

In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise...

In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise...

Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but...

Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but...

Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder.

Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder.

Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.

Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.

Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.

Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.

I build a kind of wall between myself and t he model so that I...

I build a kind of wall between myself and t he model so that I...

A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one...

A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one...

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

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

It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which...

It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which...