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

Quote by Edvard Munch

Topics: Edvard Munch Quotes

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

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

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...

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...

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...

The colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to...

The colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to...

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

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

No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint...

No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint...

I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about...

I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about...

I find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as Christians, or at any rate...

I find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as Christians, or at any rate...

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...

When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.

When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.

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...

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.

Your face encompasses the beauty of the whole earth. Your lips, as red as ripening...

Your face encompasses the beauty of the whole earth. Your lips, as red as ripening...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the...

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the...