Edvard Munch Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

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

  Edvard Munch

  Art, Eye, Soul

• 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

  Art, Reading, Men

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

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

  Edvard Munch

  Art, Believe, Men

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

  Edvard Munch

  Art, Joy, Sorrow

• 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

  Edvard Munch

  Art, Reflection, Self

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

  Edvard Munch

  Art, Works Of Art, Humans

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

  Edvard Munch

  Art, Reflection, Giving

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

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

  Edvard Munch

  Art, Believe, Men

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

  Edvard Munch

  Art, Clouds, Blood

  1889 Diary.

• 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.

  Edvard Munch

  Art, Morning, Eye

• 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

  Art, Long, Anxiety

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

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

  Edvard Munch

  Art, Pain, Joy

• 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.

  Edvard Munch

  Art, Eye, Men

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

  Edvard Munch

  Art, Blood, Literature

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

• 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

  Art, War, Hippie

• 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.

  Edvard Munch

  Art, Emotional, Interesting

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

  Edvard Munch

  Art, Helping Others, Helping

  "The Frieze of Life: Edvard Munch".

• The Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories - those with talent are fed in at one end, and they come out as mechanical painting machines.

  Edvard Munch

  Education, Art, Machines

• Photography is an art which touches and grips one's own heart's blood.

  Edvard Munch

  Photography, Art, Heart

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