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

Quote by Edvard Munch

Topics: Edvard Munch Quotes

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was...

One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was...

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...

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...

Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments....

Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments....

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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

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