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

Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.
- Edvard Munch Quote

Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.
- Edvard Munch Quote

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.
- Edvard Munch Quote

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.
- Edvard Munch Quote

I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.
- Edvard Munch Quote

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.
- Edvard Munch Quote

I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.
- Edvard Munch Quote

It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it.
- Edvard Munch Quote

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.
- Edvard Munch Quote

Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
- Edvard Munch Quote

One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.
- Edvard Munch Quote

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.
- Edvard Munch Quote

Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.
- Edvard Munch Quote

The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.
- Edvard Munch Quote

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.
- Edvard Munch Quote

When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
- Edvard Munch Quote