Schiele 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. A brain scan may reveal the neural signs of anxiety, but a Kokoschka painting, or a Schiele self-portrait, reveals what an anxiety state really feels like. Both perspectives are necessary if we are to fully grasp the nature of the mind, yet they are rarely brought together.

Eric Kandel

#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. We lost Klimmt, Schiele and Moll

George Pratt

#5. Slim throws me a startled look. I aim my bolt shooter at him. Who am I, you sonofabitch?
Helluva time for a identity crisis, he says.

Moira Young

#6. Be strong, courageous, and firm; fear not nor be in terror before them, for it is the Lord your God Who goes with you; He will not fail you or forsake you. DEUTERONOMY 31:6

Joyce Meyer

#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. A man is as much affected pleasurably or painfully by the image of a thing past or future as by the image of a thing present.

Baruch Spinoza

#9. 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

#10. I am so rich that I must give myself away.

Egon Schiele

#11. I believe in the immortality of all creatures.

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. The actor is not quite a human being-but then, who is?

George Sanders

#14. 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

#15. He who has the gold makes the rules.

Tyler Perry

#16. 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

#17. I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer.

Sam Shepard

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

Egon Schiele

#19. 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

#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. Everything is dead while it lives.

Egon Schiele

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

Egon Schiele

#23. 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

#24. Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.

Egon Schiele

#25. 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

#26. We must try to contribute joy to the world.

Roger Ebert

#27. I feel a hunger now- a real hunger-for letting the pool still itself & seeing the reflections.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#28. 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