Edvard Munch Believe Quotations

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.

It would be quite amusing to preach a bit to all those people who for many years now have been looking at our paintings and either laughed or shook their heads reproachfully. They do not believe that these impressions, these instant sensations, could contain even the smallest grain of sanity. If a tree is red or blue, or a face is blue or green, they are sure that is insanity.

A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.

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

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