Edvard Munch Quotes

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.

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

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.

But can they [great works] get rid of the worm that lies gnawing at the roots of my heart? No, never.

Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them, and that is eternity.