Top 19 Quotes & Sayings by Egon Schiele

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Austrian artist Egon Schiele.

Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Egon Leo Adolf Ludwig Schiele was an Austrian Expressionist painter. Gustav Klimt, figurative painter of the early 20th century, was a mentor. His work is noted for its intensity and its raw sexuality, and the many self-portraits the artist produced, including nude 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.

Austrian - Artist | June 12, 1890 - October 31, 1918

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Everything is dead while it lives.

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

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

Egon Schiele

I am so rich that I must give myself away.

Egon Schiele

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.

Egon Schiele

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

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 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

I believe in the immortality of all creatures.

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 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

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

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

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 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

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

Egon Schiele