Munch's Quotes

#1. Dark Jar Tin Zoo's face is sallow, his cheeks sunk in, and he looks like Edvard Munch's "The Scream," only less colorful.

Jarod Kintz

#2. My subconscious is furious, medusa-like in her anger, hair flying, her hands clenched around her face like Edvard Munch's Scream.

E.L. James

#3. So munch on, crunch on, take your nuncheon, Breakfast, supper, dinner, luncheon!

Robert Browning

#4. Eat and carouse with Bacchus, or munch dry bread with Jesus, but don't sit down without one of the gods.

D.H. Lawrence

#5. The old woman is talking to herself. In between speaking to us, she's saying things like, A finger for breakfast, a hand for lunch, an ear for dinner, munch, munch, munch!

David Estes

#6. The camera will never compete with the brush and palette until such time as photography can be taken to Heaven or Hell.

Edvard Munch

#7. The collective conscience of a hundred musicians is no light burden. Think for a moment of what it would mean to a pianist if by some miracle every key of his instrument should suddenly become a living thing.

Charles Munch

#8. Most lives are a flight from selfhood. Most prefer the truths of the stable. You stick your head into the stanchions and munch contentedly until you die. Others use you for their purposes. Not once do you look outside the stable to lift your head and be your own creature.

Frank Herbert

#9. Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.

Edvard Munch

#10. 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

#11. I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man's urge to open his heart

Edvard Munch

#12. Certainly a chair can be just as interesting as a human being. But first the chair must be perceived by a human being ... You should not paint the chair, but only what someone has felt about it.

Edvard Munch

#13. 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

#14. Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.

Edvard Munch

#15. The colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.

Edvard Munch

#16. If what you want to paint is the emotive mood in all its strength ... then you must not sit and stare at everything and depict it exactly as one sees it.

Edvard Munch

#17. 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

#18. The conductor must breathe life into the score. It is you and you alone who must expose it to the understanding, reveal the hidden jewel to the sun at the most flattering angles.

Charles Munch

#19. Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.

Edvard Munch

#20. I don't believe in an art that is not born out of man's need to open his heart.

Edvard Munch

#21. Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible. It rises far above what words can mean or the intelligence define. Its domain is the imponderable and impalpable land of the unconscious.

Charles Munch

#22. In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color.

Edvard Munch

#23. My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are? ... my art gives meaning to my life.

Edvard Munch

#24. I build a kind of wall between myself and t he model so that I can paint in peace behind it. Otherwise, she might say something that confuses and distracts me.

Edvard Munch

#25. I thought the only way you can get into things is ... through the basement ... exactly where my studio was ... I could creep upstairs and snatch at things, and bring them down with me ... where I could munch away at them.

Paula Rego

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

Edvard Munch

#27. I have been given a unique role to play on this earth: given to me by a life filled with sickness, ill-starred circumstances and my profession as an artist. It is a life that contains nothing that resembles happiness, and moreover does not even desire happiness.

Edvard Munch

#28. You win, you dirty evil butt-munch. I'll never not let you stay over again. Now let's go back to bed.

Ethan Day

#29. My will exceeds my talents.

Edvard Munch

#30. 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

#31. Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.

Edvard Munch

#32. My influences were from Europe from between 1900 and 1945. My favorite artists were Egon Schiele or Edvard Munch. I wasn't interested in contemporary art at all.

Tracey Emin

#33. Half the world starves. What a planet. And the eating, if you're lucky enough to do any. Stuffing pieces of dead animals into a hole in your face. Then munch, munch, munch. If there's anybody watching, they must be dying of laughter.

Iris Murdoch

#34. The way one sees is also dependent upon one's emotional state of mind. This is why a motif can be looked at in so many ways, and this is what makes art so interesting.

Edvard Munch

#35. when life hands you lemons you should take them . . . and whack life by the butt with those damn lemon until its bruised and then go munch on some chocolate

Mei

#36. All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart's blood. Art is your heart's blood.

Edvard Munch

#37. A work of art can only come from the interior of man. Art is the form of the image formed upon the nerves, heart, brain and eye of man.

Edvard Munch

#38. My breakthrough came very late in life, really only starting when I was 50 ... I had the strength for new deeds and ideas.

Edvard Munch

#39. Oh it's just my breakfast, Lisa. A couple of bags of Maltesers, a Toblerone, a Bounty, Jelly Tots, some Skips, seven bags of Monster Munch, Raj was doing a special offer on those, a box of Creme Eggs, and a can of Diet Coke.

David Walliams

#40. In my art I have tried to explain to myself life and its meaning. I have also tried to help others to clarify their lives.

Edvard Munch

#41. Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls.

Edvard Munch

#42. The viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church.

Edvard Munch

#43. I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.

Edvard Munch

#44. 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.

Edvard Munch

#45. In our education system, we are taught to munch figures and remember them for lifetime. But does it help? We are not taught how to make decisions.

Chetan Bhagat

#46. I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado, or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at another man's table.

Miguel De Cervantes

#47. Photography is an art which touches and grips one's own heart's blood.

Edvard Munch

#48. Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye ... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.

Edvard Munch

#49. The fruits of labor are delicious, but individually they're not particularly fattening. So don't share yours, and munch on those of others whenever you can.

Mohsin Hamid

#50. I was walking along the road with two friends. The sun set. I felt a tinge of melancholy. Suddenly the sky became a bloody red ... I stood there, trembling with fright. And I felt a loud, unending scream piercing nature.

Edvard Munch

#51. She was going to go to her room,munch on chocolate,then collapse into bed.
And if her upstairs neighbors decided to talk about who the daddy was or cry again about how much David was loved,she'd go up there and give them somthing to really bloody cry about.

Suzanne Wright

#52. It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.

Edvard Munch

#53. I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.

Edvard Munch

#54. For me, the two weeks between Christmas and Twelfth Night have come to be reserved for desultory reading. The pressure of the holiday is over, the weather outside is frightful, there are lots of leftovers to munch on, vacation hours are being used up.

Michael Dirda

#55. This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution.

Edvard Munch

#56. The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.

Edvard Munch

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

Edvard Munch

#58. Anybody who perceives colors can become a painter. It's simply a question of whether or not one has felt anything and whether one has the courage to recount the things one has felt.

Edvard Munch

#59. Okay, an intro class probably taught them how to get those booties and masks on. Did a munch teach them how to eat Scooby snacks in them?

M.Q. Barber

#60. For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.

Edvard Munch

#61. NINA IS A FREAKY BEAST, OF EVERYBODY LIKED THE LEAST, WE ALL HATE HER VERY MUCH, WE'D ALL EAT HER UP FOR LUNCH! MUNCH! MUNCH!

Allie Peterson

#62. There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.

Edvard Munch

#63. Any number of holier-than-thou honorable realists walk around in the belief that they have accomplished something, simply because they tell you for the hundredth time that a field is green and a red-painted house is painted red.

Edvard Munch

#64. Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have

Edvard Munch

#65. I fully realize that every promise I make, the Republicans will double and the Democrats will redouble. They think this will make me vulnerable, but they don't know I have some tricks up my sleeve, along with a box of raisins to munch on while I'm waiting for the returns to come in.

Gracie Allen

#66. 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

#67. I look forward to going to Chicago because it's where I grew up, and the food there is so munch. Especially during the winter, I get deep dish pizza or Italian beef, and it warms me up. It's something I don't normally get, especially here in L.A. where you're always trying to be healthy.

Ron Funches

#68. To die is as if one's eyes had been put out and one cannot see anything any more. Perhaps it is like being shut in a cellar. One is abandoned by all. They have slammed the door and are gone. One does not see anything and notices only the damp smell of putrefaction.

Edvard Munch

#69. At different moments you see with different eyes. You see differently in the morning than you do in the evening. In addition, how you see is also dependent on your emotional state. Because of this, a motif can be seen in many different ways, and this is what makes art interesting.

Edvard Munch

#70. Mom: How u today

Me:

Edvard Munch

Despair, 1829.

Oil on canvas

36 1/4 x 26 1/2" (92 x 67 cm)

Unknown

#71. Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder.

Edvard Munch

#72. When I paint, I never think of selling. People simply fail to understand that we paint in order to experiment and to develop ourselves as we strive for greater heights.

Edvard Munch

#73. Morning. Strawberry sky dusted with white winter powder sugar sun. And nobody to munch on it with

Francesca Lia Block

#74. Magistrate: May I die a thousand deaths ere I obey one who wears a veil!
Lysistrata: If that's all that troubles you, here take my veil, wrap it round your head, and hold your tounge. Then take this basket; put on a girdle, card wool, munch beans. The War shall be women's business.

Aristophanes

#75. 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

#76. A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.

Edvard Munch

#77. What is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives.

Edvard Munch

#78. I find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as Christians, or at any rate many religious people, conceive it, believing that the conversations with relatives and friends interrupted here on earth will be continued in the hereafter.

Edvard Munch

#79. Art comes from joy and pain ... But mostly from pain.

Edvard Munch

#80. The Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories - those with talent are fed in at one end, and they come out as mechanical painting machines.

Edvard Munch

#81. But can they [great works] get rid of the worm that lies gnawing at the roots of my heart? No, never.

Edvard Munch

#82. When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.

Edvard Munch

#83. Your face encompasses the beauty of the whole earth. Your lips, as red as ripening fruit, gently part as if in pain. It is the smile of a corpse. Now the hand of death touches life. The chain is forged that links the thousand families that are dead to the thousand generations to come.

Edvard Munch

#84. One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.

Edvard Munch

#85. Are you a lesbian?" She looked at me with a serious expression. "If you are, it's okay. I don't want you to munch my rug or anything, but I'll love you anyway.

L.D. Davis

#86. 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

#87. A work of art comes only from inside a human being.

Edvard Munch

#88. Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?

Edvard Munch

#89. I hope you come to hear the tale, and not just munch your way through the pages to the ending ... endings are heartless. An ending is a door no man can open.

Stephen King

#90. I felt as if there were invisible threads connecting us - I felt the invisible strands of her hair still winding around me - and thus as she disappeared completely beyond the sea - I still felt it, felt the pain where my heart was bleeding - because the threads could not be severed.

Edvard Munch

#91. I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted ... the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked.

Edvard Munch

#92. I never cheat or steal. Also, I never wear a top-hat with a sack coat or munch bananas in public on the streets, because a gentleman does not do those things either. I would as soon do the one as the other sort of thing
it is all a matter of harmony and good taste.

H.P. Lovecraft

#93. My father was temperamentally nervous and obsessively religious - to the point of psychoneurosis. From him I inherited the seeds of madness. The angels of fear, sorrow, and death stood by my side since the day I was born.

Edvard Munch

#94. I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.

Edvard Munch