Quotes from Egon Schiele

I am so rich that I must give myself away.

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.

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

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?

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

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

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.

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.

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...

And yet, for my art and for my loved ones, I will gladly endure to the end.

He who denies sex is a filthy person who smears in the lowest way his own parents who have begotten him

Reprimir a un artista es delito, significa asesinar vida en gestación

Marriage isn't a vow to stop being interested in other people; it's a commitment as to how to handle that interest.

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

Everything is dead while it lives.

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

I believe in the immortality of all creatures.

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.

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

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.