Edvard Munch

Expressionist Painter Norwegian 1863 – 1944

Created The Scream, a haunting icon of human anxiety and existential dread.

383 quotes

"I am my own most interesting subject."
Solitude
"Freedom and isolation are two sides of the same coin."
Freedom
"I paint the invisible forces around me."
Art
"The human condition is one of eternal struggle."
Life
"Beauty lies in the broken places."
Beauty
"I cannot escape what I am."
Life
"To be true to oneself is the greatest victory."
Truth
"I seek the essence of things, not their appearance."
Wisdom
"Every person carries a universe within them."
Philosophy
"The past haunts me like a ghost."
History
"I am painting myself into immortality."
Art
"Suffering is the price of consciousness."
Life
"I give form to what dwells in the depths of the soul."
Art
"The world is not as it appears to the eye."
Philosophy
"My art is a conversation with the dead."
Art
"I must express what lives within or I will suffocate."
Creativity
"There is no greater madness than the sanity of the masses."
Philosophy
"I paint the moment between life and death."
Art
"The night reveals what the day conceals."
Wisdom
"I am both painter and painting."
Art
"Nature speaks in the language of symbols."
Nature
"To love is to be vulnerable."
Love
"I see the invisible threads connecting all things."
Philosophy
"My brush is my weapon against despair."
Art
"The greatest art emerges from the deepest pain."
Art
"I am imprisoned by my own sensitivity."
Life
"Colors speak louder than words."
Art
"The heart has reasons that reason knows not."
"I seek to capture the moment when life touches eternity."
Art
"Every line I draw is a confession."
Art