Everything is dead while it lives. Egon Schiele More Quotes by Egon Schiele More Quotes From 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 dark wind water 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 filth erotic art 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 eye would-be people Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal. Egon Schiele modern eternal art Bodies have their own light which they consume to live: they burn, they are not lit from the outside. Egon Schiele body light beauty To restrict the artist is a crime. It is to murder germinating life Egon Schiele crime murder artist I believe in the immortality of all creatures. Egon Schiele immortality believe art 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 erotic drawing art 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 sight people art 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 medicine flower philosophy 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 breathe doe thinking I am so rich that I must give myself away. Egon Schiele rich giving 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 sacrifice understanding mother 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 quality joy beautiful I don't know whether there is anyone else at all who remembers my noble father with such sadness Egon Schiele sad noble father
