Edvard Munch Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose.”

“The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.”

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

“Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.”

“I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell.”

“It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it.”

“This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution.”

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

“By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life.”

“I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for its accommodation and the funds for its completion were available.”