Egon Schiele > Quotes

“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

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

“Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.”
― Egon Schiele

“In Vienna there are shadows. The city is black and everything is done by rote. I want to be alone. I want to go to the Bohemian Forest. May, June, July, August, September, October. I must see new things and investigate them. I want to taste dark water and see crackling trees and wild winds. I want to gaze with astonishment at moldy garden fences, I want to experience them all, to hear young birch plantations and trembling leaves, to see light and sun, enjoy wet, green-blue valleys in the evening, sense goldfish glinting, see white clouds building up in the sky, to speak to flowers. I want to look intently at grasses and pink people, old venerable churches, to know what little cathedrals say, to run without stopping along curving meadowy slopes across vast plains, kiss the earth and smell soft warm marshland flowers. And then I shall shape things so beautifully: fields of colour…”
― 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

“And yet, for my art and for my loved ones, I will gladly endure to the end.”
― Egon Schiele

“He who denies sex is a filthy person who smears in the lowest way his own parents who have begotten him”
― Egon Schiele

“Marriage isn't a vow to stop being interested in other people; it’s a commitment as to how to handle that interest.”
― Egon Schiele, Egon Schiele

“Reprimir a un artista es delito, significa asesinar vida en gestación”
― Egon Schiele