25 Quotes by Egon Schiele

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.

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

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

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

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

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?

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...

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.

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.