Art Quote by Egon Schiele

All art is erotic.

— Anonymous

All art is probably erotic in its ultimate character, but painting more than anything else is a purely nervous erotic activity.

— Patrick Swift

People have done pornographic pictures forever, but most of the people who involve themselves in explicit sexuality aren't really artists.

— Robert Mapplethorpe

The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter

— Lucian Freud

No erotic work of art is filth if it is artistically significant; it is only turned into filth through the beholder if he is…

— Egon Schiele

If an artist does not have an erotic involvement with everything that he sees, he may as well give up. To be a human…

— Lucas Samaras

At the moment my art is situated between the pornographic tendency to reveal everything and the erotic inclination to hide what it's all about.

— Marlene Dumas

I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.

— Marianne Moore

I have no interest in art. Let me clarify — I have no interest in non-nude images.

— Aziz Ansari

I am not an artist, and I never intended to be one. I hope I have made some good photographs, but what I really…

— Cornell Capa

The erotic and the art historical imagination is something that gets very little play when people talk about my work, and when they rarely…

— Kehinde Wiley