Edvard Munch Quotes

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

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  Art, Eye, Soul

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

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  Art, Joy, Sorrow

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

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  Art, Blood, Literature

  Edvard Munch's manuscript (1891), as quoted in Shelley Wood Cordulack "Edvard Munch and the Physiology of Symbolism", 2002.

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

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  Art, Believe, Men

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

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  Art, Pain, Joy

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• I was walking along a path with two friends - the sun was setting - suddenly the sky turned blood red - I paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fence - there was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city - my friends walked on, and I stood there trembling with anxiety - and I sensed an infinite scream passing through nature.

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  Fire, Blue, Blood

  Edvard Munch's Diary, January 22, 1892.

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• There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.

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  Men, People, Battle

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

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  Death, Flower, I Hate You

  "Sustainable Landscape Construction: A Guide to Green Building Outdoors". Book by William Thompson and Kim Sorvig, p. 30, 2007.

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• I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.

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  Vision, Saws, Paint

  Elizabeth Prelinger, Edvard Munch, High Museum of Art (2001). “After The Scream: The Late Paintings of Edvard Munch”, p.38, Yale University Press

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• 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

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  Art, Reflection, Self

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• Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls.

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  Soul, Trying, Research

  Ragna Thiis Stang, Edvard Munch (1979). “Edvard Munch: The Man and the Artist”

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• 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.

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  Art, Reading, Men

  "The St. Cloud Manifesto" (Impressions from a ballroom, New Year's Eve in St. Cloud) by Edvard Munch, 1889.

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

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  Art, Works Of Art, Humans

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

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  Art, Reflection, Giving

  "Edvard Munch: Psyche, Symbol and Expressio". Book by Jeffery Howe, 2001.

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• 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.

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  Art, Morning, Eye

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• The viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church.

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  Church, Hats, Spirit

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• Through my art I have tried to explain my life and its meaning. I have also intended to help others to clarify their lives.

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  Art, Helping Others, Helping

  "The Frieze of Life: Edvard Munch".

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

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  Angel, Artist, Insanity

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• 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.

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  Art, Eye, Men

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• From the moment of my birth, the angels of anxiety, worry, and death stood at my side, followed me out when I played, followed me in the sun of springtime and in the glories of summer. They stood at my side in the evening when I closed my eyes, and intimidated me with death, hell, and eternal damnation.

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  Summer, Eye, Angel

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

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  Art, Believe, Men

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

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  Art, Clouds, Blood

  1889 Diary.

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Order, People

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• My whole life has been spent walking by the side of a bottomless chasm, jumping from stone to stone. Sometimes I try to leave my narrow path and join the swirling mainstream of life, but I always find myself drawn inexorably back towards the chasm's edge, and there I shall walk until the day I finally fall into the abyss.

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  Fall, Jumping, Trying

  Ragna Thiis Stang, Edvard Munch (1979). “Edvard Munch: The Man and the Artist”

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• Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.

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  Artist, Color, Clash

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