Quotes by Egon Schiele

About Egon Schiele:

Egon Schiele is noted for its intensity and its raw sexuality, and the many self-portraits the artist produced, including naked self-portraits. The twisted body shapes and the expressive line that characterize Schiele's paintings and drawings mark the artist as an early exponent of Expressionism.
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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

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

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

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

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

Everything is dead while it lives.

Egon Schiele

I am so rich that I must give myself away.

Egon Schiele

I believe in the immortality of all creatures.

Egon Schiele

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

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

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

Author Bio

  • NameEgon Schiele
  • Descriptionaustrian painter
  • BornJune 12, 1890
  • DiedOctober 31, 1918
  • CountryAustria
  • ProfessionPainter; Engraver; Draughtsperson
  • WorksPortrait Of Wally; ;