Top 32 Egon Quotes
#1. From childhood my mother had me examining Robert Mapplethorpe's style and Egon Schiele's framing - that's what modelling is about.
Milla Jovovich
#2. I understand it is 13-8 against Egon Ronay publishing a Good Betting Shop Food Guide by 1997.
Clement Freud
#3. My influences were from Europe from between 1900 and 1945. My favorite artists were Egon Schiele or Edvard Munch. I wasn't interested in contemporary art at all.
Tracey Emin
#4. His voice took on a thick silkiness to it that made her want to press her body closer. "Octavia, you are welcome to touch any part of my body you wish. Just be careful of what you start. Once I lay claim to something, or someone, I will not part with it or them willingly." - Kade Egon
Sunshine Taylor Reddick
#5. I get to be Peter Venkman," says Thomas. "Nobody gets to be anybody," I snap. "We are not ghostbusters. I've got the knife, and I kill the ghosts, and I can't be tripping over you the whole time. Besides, it's obvious that I would be Peter Venkman." I look sharply at Thomas. "You would be Egon.
Kendare Blake
#6. The artist's view of the world and mankind is that which seeks as far as possible to lose itself in its object, illuminating it not from the outside by some light foreign to it, but from within, deriving light from its own core.
Egon Friedell
#7. I must see new things and investigate them. I want to taste dark water and see crackling trees and wild winds.
Egon Schiele
#8. 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
#9. Bodies have their own light which they consume to live: they burn, they are not lit from the outside.
Egon Schiele
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. I don't know whether there is anyone else at all who remembers my noble father with such sadness.
Egon Schiele
#13. I believe in the immortality of all creatures.
Egon Schiele
#14. Art is the subjective, preferential treatment of certain elements of reality; it selects and resets, distributes light and shade, omits and underlines, softens and emphasises.
Egon Friedell
#15. The worst prejudice we acquire during our youth is the idea that life is serious. Children have the right instincts: they know that life is not serious, and treat it as a game...
Egon Friedell
#16. I am so rich that I must give myself away.
Egon Schiele
#17. International politics is never about democracy and human rights. It's about the interests of states. Remember that, no matter what you are told in history lessons.
Egon Bahr
#18. 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
#19. The highest, the only reality, is ever at hand, but for the most part invisible. Genius makes it visible ...
Egon Friedell
#20. 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
#21. All knowing that goes beyond the immediate experience of the moment is a matter of faith.
Egon Friedell
#23. To restrict the artist is a crime. It is to murder germinating life.
Egon Schiele
#24. 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
#25. Artists of all sorts remain youthful for so long, and in many cases attain a grand old age. The explanation is that they live in an almost permanent condition of stimulation and excitement.
Egon Friedell
#26. God does not rule the world outwardly by gravitation and chemical affinity, but inwardly in the heart of man: as is your soul, so will the destiny be of the world in which you live and do.
Egon Friedell
#27. Electricity and magnetism are those forces of nature by which people who know nothing about electricity and magnetism can explain everything.
Egon Friedell
#28. Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.
Egon Schiele
#29. Clothe an idea in words and it loses its freedom of movement.
Egon Friedell
#30. 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
#31. We can never see the world other than incompletely: deliberately to see it as incomplete is to create an artistic aspect.
Egon Friedell
#32. 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
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