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. Edvard Munch More Quotes by Edvard Munch More Quotes From Edvard Munch I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted ... the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked. Edvard Munch clouds blood art My father was temperamentally nervous and obsessively religious—to the point of psychoneurosis. From him I inherited the seeds of madness. The angels of fear, sorrow, and death stood by my side since the day I was born. Edvard Munch angel religious father Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas. Edvard Munch canvas remarkable color My breakthrough came very late in life, really only starting when I was 50...I had the strength for new deeds and ideas. Edvard Munch deeds age ideas My will exceeds my talents. Edvard Munch exceed talent Art comes from joy and pain...But mostly from pain. Edvard Munch pain joy art In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in Hell hanging over my head Edvard Munch punishment sick mother When I paint, I never think of selling. People simply fail to understand that we paint in order to experiment and to develop ourselves as we strive for greater heights. Edvard Munch order people thinking A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself. Edvard Munch portraits artist believe I was walking along the road with two friends. The sun set. I felt a tinge of melancholy. Suddenly the sky became a bloody red... I stood there, trembling with fright. And I felt a loud, unending scream piercing nature. Edvard Munch two-friends fear sky Certainly a chair can be just as interesting as a human being. But first the chair must be perceived by a human being... You should not paint the chair, but only what someone has felt about it. Edvard Munch paint interesting firsts Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls. Edvard Munch research soul trying Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life. Edvard Munch angel artist insanity Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash. Edvard Munch clash color artist 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 anxiety long art I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell. Edvard Munch photography heaven long One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor Edvard Munch chapel painting artist It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes. Edvard Munch ten painting holes Any number of holier-than-thou honorable realists walk around in the belief that they have accomplished something, simply because they tell you for the hundredth time that a field is green and a red-painted house is painted red. Edvard Munch green house numbers Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have Edvard Munch mental-health accomplished illness
