Edvard Munch Quotes & Sayings
30 most famous Edvard Munch quotes and sayings (artist). These are the first 10 quotes we have for him.
“Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness.”
“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.”
“Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.”
“The colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.”
“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.”
“Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.”
“I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.”
“A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.”
“Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder.”
“Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.”
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