Edvard Munch

Born 1863 · Died 1944

From Ådalsbruk, Innlandet, Norway · Nationality: Norway

Quotes

“All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart’s blood. Art is your heart’s blood.”
1880 - 1895
“By painting colours and lines and forms seen in a quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does.”
1896 - 1930, p. 105
“What is art really? The outcome of dissatisfaction with life, the point of impact for the creative force, the continual movement of life.. ..in my art I attempt to explain life and its meaning to myself.”
after 1930, p. 35
“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.”
1880 - 1895
“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.”
after 1930, p. 30

Books by Edvard Munch in the order they were published, from Edvard Munch (1927) to Munch Becoming "Munch" (2008).