Egon Schiele
Egon Schiele
Egon Schiele; 12 June 1890 – 31 October 1918) was an Austrian painter. A protégé of Gustav Klimt, Schiele was a major figurative painter of the early 20th century. His work 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...
NationalityAustrian
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth12 June 1890
CountryAustria
I shall go so far that people will be seized with terror at the sight of each of my works of 'living' 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.
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?
I don't know whether there is anyone else at all who remembers my noble father with such sadness
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.
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?
Everything is dead while it lives.
I am so rich that I must give myself away.
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.
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
Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.
To restrict the artist is a crime. It is to murder germinating life
I must see new things and investigate them. I want to taste dark water and see crackling trees and wild winds.
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...