Schiele Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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

Everything is dead while it lives. — Egon Schiele

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

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

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

We lost Klimmt, Schiele and Moll — George Pratt

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

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

A brain scan may reveal the neural signs of anxiety, but a Kokoschka painting, or a Schiele self-portrait, reveals what an anxiety state really feels like. Both perspectives are necessary if we are to fully grasp the nature of the mind, yet they are rarely brought together. — Eric Kandel