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Egon Schiele

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


— Egon Schiele


#crime #life #murder #restrict

Everything is dead while it lives.


— Egon Schiele


#everything #lives #while

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


— Egon Schiele


#else #father #i #know #noble

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.


— Egon Schiele


#cannot #eternal #modern

I am so rich that I must give myself away.


— Egon Schiele


#away #give #i #i am #must

I believe in the immortality of all creatures.


— Egon Schiele


#creatures #i #i believe #i believe in #immortality

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


#art #artists #deny #done #drawings

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


#either #had #least #love #love me






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During the war Schiele's paintings became larger and more detailed when he had the time to produce them. The twenty-one days he had already spent in custody were taken into account and he was sentenced to only three days' imprisonment. Within this year Schiele also painted and drew many children.

[About this sound] Egon Schiele (help·info) (German pronunciation: [ˈʃiːlə] approximately SHEE-luh; June 12 1890 – October 31 1918) was an Austrian painter. His work is noted for its intensity and the many self-portraits the artist produced. A protégé of Gustav Klimt Schiele was a major figurative painter of the early 20th century.

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