Famous Quotes

"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 on Art

More quotes about Art

• "True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist."

  Albert Einstein on Art

• "If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."

  Vincent Van Gogh on Art

• "The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person."

  Abraham Lincoln on Art

• "The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."

  Aristotle on Art

• "A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament."

  Oscar Wilde on Art

More quotes by Edvard Munch

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

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

• "Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life."

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

• "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."