Edvard Munch Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in Hell hanging over my head.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“I find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as Christians, or at any rate many religious people, conceive it, believing that the conversations with relatives and friends interrupted here on earth will be continued in the hereafter.”

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

“To die is as if one's eyes had been put out and one cannot see anything any more. Perhaps it is like being shut in a cellar. One is abandoned by all. They have slammed the door and are gone. One does not see anything and notices only the damp smell of putrefaction.”

“One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.”