"No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and fee…"

"I thought I should make something – I felt it would be so easy – it would take form under my hands like magic."

"The point is that one sees things at different moments with different eyes. Differently in the morning then in the ev…"

"When seen as a whole, art derives from a person's desire to communicate himself to another. I do not believe in an ar…"

"I was walking along a path with two friends — the sun was setting — suddenly the sky turned blood red — I paused, fee…"

"Realism's 'truth' as embodied in painting and literature now solely consists of things capable of being seen by the e…"

"Nothing ceases to exist – there is no example of this in nature.. .There is an entire mass of things that cannot rati…"

"By painting colours and lines and forms seen in a quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonogr…"

"And I live with the dead – my mother, my sister [Sophie], my grandfather, my father [who died in 1889, when Munch was…"

"I am at work on a girl. It is quite simple a girl getting up on the edge of her bed and pulling on her stockings. The…"