Schiele Self Quotes

#1. 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

#2. When I visit new places, I like to see the markets.

Rirkrit Tiravanija

#3. Defending the United States was important and there were few higher honours, yet ... was it worth making such a commitment when one's political leaders were worse than the enemy?

Christopher G. Nuttall

#4. 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

#5. I don't know whether there is anyone else at all who remembers my noble father with such sadness.

Egon Schiele

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

Egon Schiele

#7. From childhood my mother had me examining Robert Mapplethorpe's style and Egon Schiele's framing - that's what modelling is about.

Milla Jovovich

#8. By idolizing those whom we honor, we do a disservice both to them and to ourselves ... We fail to recognize that we could go and do likewise. - CHARLES V. WILLIE

James W. Loewen

#9. I never know what to tell young people when they come here. It could never happen for anyone they way it happened for me. It was all an accident.

Al Hirschfeld

#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. I wrote my first book when I was 22 years old. I have a way with words and I love to write. I can write without getting writers block so I knew, it was a gift.

Tony Gaskins

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

Egon Schiele

#13. What I was hungry for was sitting nonchalantly next to me on the couch.

Cara Lynn Shultz

#14. His mind worked fast, flying in emergency supplies of common sense, as human minds do, to construct a huge anchor in sanity and prove that what happened hadn't really happened and, if it had happened, hadn't happened much.

Terry Pratchett

#15. 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

#16. It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes.

Edith Wharton

#17. I must see new things and investigate them. I want to taste dark water and see crackling trees and wild winds.

Egon Schiele

#18. 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

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

Egon Schiele

#20. The fall of the nation, there is no;
Faithfulness,
Kindness and
Knowledge of God in your sacred land.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#21. 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

#22. My mother gave up a good part of her career to look after me.

David Cassidy

#23. Screw them. Yeah. But not literally. I'm not advocating promiscuity.

Mark Hoppus

#24. 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

#25. Everything is dead while it lives.

Egon Schiele

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

Egon Schiele

#27. No, it was too much. The line between madness and masochism was already hazy; the time had come to pull back ... to retire, hunker down, back off and "cop out," as it were. Why not? in every gig like this, there comes a time to either cut your losses or consolidate your winnings - whichever fits.

Hunter S. Thompson

#28. 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

#29. Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.

Voltaire

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

Egon Schiele

#31. 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

#32. We lost Klimmt, Schiele and Moll

George Pratt

#33. A drunk doesn't try to stand up; a drunk tries not to fall down.

Matthew McConaughey

#34. 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