Edvard Munch in his artist quotes on painting & life in Norway; free resource, European art history

Edvard Munch in quotes - the Norwegian artist on his painting art, his early youth experiences and his artistic life - free resource for students, pupils, art-lovers and teachers in European art history

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Edvard Munch tells in his artist quotes about his dramatic youth-experiences in Norway. He explains how his early youth played an important role in the subjects and emotions of his later painting art. As modern painter Munch described his ultimate moment of using bright colors, and rejecting then all darks and browns. He reflects moreover on the moment of creation itself - as expressed in a painting.

Munch observed his own person and dramatic life as objects for his visual ‘study of the soul’ as he calls it - for instance in his painting ‘Anatomical test’. The soul for him was immortal; painting had for him a symbolic meaning - for himself and for other people.
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Some selected quotes of Norwegian artist Edvard Munch - as a short introduction of his extended quotes in the PDF:

• ’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.’ - quote from Munch’s text, 1889: ‘Impressions from a ballroom, New Year’s Eve in St. Cloud’ - also known as ‘The St. Cloud Manifesto’

• ’The point is that one sees things at different moments with different eyes. Differently in the morning then in the evening. The way in which one sees also depends on one’s mood… .One must paint precisely the fleeting moment of significance – one must capture the exact experience’. - Munch’s quote, 1890: as cited in: ‘Edvard Much – behind the scream’, Sue Prideaux, 2007, pp. 83-84

• ’I was walking along a path with two friends - the sun was setting… .I paused, feeling exhausted… .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.’ - quote from Munch’s Diary, 22 January 1892, about the inspiration for starting his famous painting ‘The Scream’
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  selection of free art-resources on Norwegian artist Edvard Munch:

  • biographical notes on Edvard Munch, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edvard_Munch
  • artist-quotes of ànd about Munch, Wikiquote: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edvard_Munch
  • images of the painting art of Edvard Munch, Wikiart: https://www.wikiart.org/en/Search/Munch
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    editor: Fons Heijnsbroek (= FotoDutch on Wikiquote):<br>[see: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/User:FotoDutch]