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Egon Schiele Quotes



Quotes by Egon Schiele - (10 quotes)

Egon Schiele - From the Art category:

Art cannot be modern, art is timeless. (Egon Schiele)

Egon Schiele - From the Artists category:

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

Egon Schiele - From the Eroticism category:

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)

Egon Schiele - From the Freedom category:

-title of his earliest self-portrait...
To Confine the Artist is a Crime, It Means Murdering Unborn Life. (Egon Schiele)

Egon Schiele - From the Generosity category:

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

Egon Schiele - From the Impotence category:

-on his work...
...figures like a cloud of dust resembling this earth and seeking to grow, but forced to collapse impotently. (Egon Schiele)

Egon Schiele - From the Inspiration category:

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

Egon Schiele - From the Life category:

Everything is dead while it lives. (Egon Schiele)

Egon Schiele - From the Light category:

The picture must radiate light, the bodies have their own light which they consume to live: they burn, they are not lit from outside. (Egon Schiele)

Egon Schiele - From the Movement category:

-to Franz Hauer...
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)