Edvard Munch Quotes

Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.

To shy away from human extremes and human sensuality makes for bone-dry fiction. A world parched of our sexual releases and our tumultuous daily emotional lives is deeply impoverished. It is not lifelike, at least life as I remember living it.

Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love.

They say great themes make great novels. but what these young writers don't understand is that there is no greater theme than men and women.

I'm drawn to the romantic aspect of a character. It's human emotion. It's much more fun to watch. And it's much more fun to play.

No one will ever know how many novels, poems, analyses, confessions, sufferings and joys have been piled up on this continent called Love, without it ever having turned out to be totally investigated.

I love the sound of the saxophone. It became my singing voice, and it sounds so human. The saxophone could carry the words past the border of words. It can carry it a little bit farther.

Women are a little more assertive in terms of our ability to express our feelings when we fall in love.

What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind. Music is love itself - it is the purest, most ethereal language of passion, showing in a thousand ways all possible changes of color and feeling; and though true in only a single instance, it yet can be understood by thousands of men - who all feel differently.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Love is probably the strongest emotion that you can feel. It's very natural - and I wouldn't want to say easy - but natural and comfortable to write about, and there's so many different forms of it, millions of layers - you could write forever about it.

I want to play with my heart.

All good works of art must ask this question: 'You want to breathe free, yes, but do you know how to kiss?'

Love songs are the most complex to write because everyone knows about it.

You use sex to express every emotion except love.

There is little one can say about love. It has to be lived, and it's always in motion.

There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.

Music is like making love: either all or nothing.

I like songs with a lot of heart and feeling and subtlety.

Yes, you've got to sing from the depths of the heart.

Kisses, even to the air, are beautiful.

I really love the independent movies and I just think that sometimes when they throw a lot of money into it and a lot of special effects and a lot of stunts that you lose the connection, the human connection and I personally love movies that are about the human connection.

It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.

There is no art without Eros.

I am often drawn to what appear at first to be 'dark' or 'difficult' subjects, but which, upon further examination, are always and only reflections of the ways human beings attempt, however clumsily, badly, or well, to connect with others.