25 Quotes by Egon Schiele

The picture must radiate light, the bodies have their own light which they consume to live: they burn, they are not lit from outside.

I shall go so far that people will be seized with terror at the sight of each of my works of ‘living’ art.

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

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

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.

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