Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness. Edvard Munch Read Quote
I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell. Edvard Munch Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell. Edvard Munch Read Quote
I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw. Edvard Munch Read Quote
It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it. Edvard Munch Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes. Edvard Munch Read Quote
By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life. Edvard Munch Read Quote
The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose. Edvard Munch Read Quote
