Egon Schiele Quotes
- I believe in the immortality of all creatures.
- I was in love with everything- I wanted to look with love at the angry people so that their eyes would be forced to respond;…
- At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human…
- I do not deny that I have made drawings and watercolors of an erotic nature. But they are always works of art. Are there no…
- Everything is dead while it lives.
- To restrict the artist is a crime. It is to murder germinating life
- I don't know whether there is anyone else at all who remembers my noble father with such sadness
- My mother is a very strange woman... She doesn't understand me in the least and doesn't love me much either. If she had either love…
- I am so rich that I must give myself away.
- I must live in my own excrement, breathe in my own poisonous sticky fumes. Yet I am a human being! I still am. Does no…
- I shall go so far that people will be seized with terror at the sight of each of my works of 'living' art.
- No erotic work of art is filth if it is artistically significant; it is only turned into filth through the beholder if he is filthy.
- Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.
- All beautiful and noble qualities have been united in me... I shall be the fruit which will leave eternal vitality behind even after its decay.…
- I must see new things and investigate them. I want to taste dark water and see crackling trees and wild winds.
- Bodies have their own light which they consume to live: they burn, they are not lit from the outside.