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9 Edvard Munch Quotes

Edvard Munch shares haunting reflections on art, life, and eternity that will draw you in.

Edvard Munch quotes

  1. 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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  2. Could only have been painted by a madman.

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

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  4. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.

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  5. I painted from memory... the impressions of my childhood.

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  6. I painted the lines and colours that affected my inner eye... from memory without adding anything.

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  7. My art is rooted in a single reflection... my art gives meaning to my life.

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  8. One night I was walking along a lane, on one side stood the town and underneath the Fjord, I was tired and sick. I stopped to look beyond the fjord - the sun was getting down - the clouds were tinged with a blood-red, I heard a cry to cross Nature: I almost thought of hearing it. I painted this picture, I painted the clouds like true blood. Colours were crying

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  9. Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.

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