Edvard Munch Quotes

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

Images adorn our inner life and carry great power there.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

All my work comes from perceiving. I kept seeing things that were brooding in me. I'm not a geometric artist.

I'm exchanging molecules every 30 days with the natural world and in a spiritual sense I know I am a part of it and take my photographs from that emotional feeling within me, rather than from an emotional distance as a spectator.

Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys, rivers and trees; they all served as my teachers when I lived as a wanderer in the Himalayan foothills.

The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.

As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other.

The inner world is very potent for me - I don't ascribe to any God or Jesus or Buddha - I just have a sense of it and revere it along with the natural world and human consciousness.

There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.

Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.

Blue oblivion, largely lit, smiled and smiled at me.

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.

I am interested in relating the things we see with the things we see with our eyes closed.

A birdsong can even, for a moment, make the whole world into a sky within us, because we feel that the bird does not distinguish between its heart and the world's.

It lies around us like a cloud- A world we do not see; Yet the sweet closing of an eye May bring us there to be.

When I close my eyes my vision is even more powerful.

Nature is the true revelation of the Deity to man. The nearest green field is the inspired page from which you may read all that it is needful for you to know.

Nature is man's religious book, with lessons for every day.

Folded eyes see brighter colors than the open ever do.

Clearly I know, the mind is mountains, rivers, and the great earth; sun, moon, and stars.

Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.

There's smoke in my iris, but I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids