Edvard Munch Art Quotations

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.

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.

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.

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.

The way one sees is also dependent upon one's emotional state of mind. This is why a motif can be looked at in so many ways, and this is what makes art so interesting.

Photography is an art which touches and grips one's own heart's blood.

The Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories - those with talent are fed in at one end, and they come out as mechanical painting machines.

My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are? ... my art gives meaning to my life.

Art comes from joy and pain...But mostly from pain.

I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted ... the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked.

I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man's urge to open his heart

In my art I have tried to explain to myself life and its meaning. I have also tried to help others to clarify their lives.

A work of art can only come from the interior of man. Art is the form of the image formed upon the nerves, heart, brain and eye of man.

A work of art comes only from inside a human being.

What is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives.

At different moments you see with different eyes. You see differently in the morning than you do in the evening. In addition, how you see is also dependent on your emotional state. Because of this, a motif can be seen in many different ways, and this is what makes art interesting.

My fear of life is necessary to me, as is my illness. Without anxiety and illness, I am a ship without a rudder. My art is grounded in reflections over being different from others. My sufferings are part of my self and my art. They are indistinguishable from me, and their destruction would destroy my art. I want to keep those sufferings

I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.

All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart's blood. Art is your heart's blood.