Schiele Egon Quotes & Sayings

I believe in the immortality of all creatures. — Egon Schiele

Look deep into the pupil stare into the black, you'll be able to see the soul what is it doingLaughing? Dancing? Crying? Screaming? — Shannon Leto

Happy are those lovers who, when their senses require rest, can fall back upon the intellectual enjoyments afforded by the mind! Sweet sleep then comes, and lasts until the body has recovered its general harmony. On awaking, the senses are again active and always ready to resume their action. — Giacomo Casanova

Egon Schiele is my favorite painter. There's just something about art - photography, painting, music, plays - whatever you see, sometimes there's a gut reaction that's more important or more visceral than what your brain is thinking about. You can't explain that reaction. It's like what happens when you fall in love. — Albert Hammond Jr.

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 body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants. — Egon Schiele

To restrict the artist is a crime. It is to murder germinating life. — Egon Schiele

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. How great must be your joy, therefore, to have given birth to me. — Egon Schiele

I am so rich that I must give myself away. — Egon Schiele

My influences were from Europe from between 1900 and 1945. My favorite artists were Egon Schiele or Edvard Munch. I wasn't interested in contemporary art at all. — Tracey Emin

The power of greatness lies within each of us. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I will never be able to find myself if I isolate myself from the rest of mankind as if I were a different kind of being. — Thomas Merton

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. — Egon Schiele

Professor Morgan had called [Dooley] 'a lad of few words.' That wasn't true. There were words spilling around in him all the time. Too many words. His problem was organizing them. — Jan Karon

Bodies have their own light which they consume to live: they burn, they are not lit from the outside. — Egon Schiele

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 or understanding she would be prepared to make sacrifices. — Egon Schiele

I have great hope of a wicked man, slender hope of a mean one. A wicked man may be converted and become a prominent saint. A mean man ought to be converted six or seven times, one right after the other, to give him a fair start and put him on an equality with a bold, wicked man. — Henry Ward Beecher

I don't know whether there is anyone else at all who remembers my noble father with such sadness. — Egon Schiele

From childhood my mother had me examining Robert Mapplethorpe's style and Egon Schiele's framing - that's what modelling is about. — Milla Jovovich

I think it's ridiculous that we even have to talk about gay rights as rights ... It's gonna be as shocking as the treatment of slaves someday. — Regina Spektor

I think the main way that somebody would know they're translucent is that their life has become more about the embodiment of Spirit than about acquisition, and that may be something that creeps up on you. — Arjuna Ardagh

The harder I practiced, the luckier I got. — Gary Player

I must see new things and investigate them. I want to taste dark water and see crackling trees and wild winds. — Egon Schiele

Ferrys die, but there is always a Ferry to cross the mist. Bridges and ferryfolk, they are not so different, Kit. — Kij Johnson

Everything is dead while it lives. — Egon Schiele

I have such an image of a mafioso. — Paul Sorvino

I shall go so far that people will be seized with terror at the sight of each of my works of 'living' art. — Egon Schiele

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; and I wanted to bring gifts to the envious and tell them that I am worthless. — Egon Schiele

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal. — Egon Schiele

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 artists who have done erotic pictures? — Egon Schiele

The Operative tried to implement the Purusey breathing technique, which has been proven effective at fooling polygraphs. There is no conclusive evidence as to
whether it is effective at masking the internal lie detectors of fifteen-year-old boys. — Ally Carter

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 one think of that? — Egon Schiele