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Gustav Klimt

Read through the most famous quotes from Gustav Klimt




All art is erotic.


— Gustav Klimt


Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want.


— Gustav Klimt


#alone #am #artist #attentively #i

I can paint and draw. I believe this myself and a few other people say that they believe this too. But I'm not certain of whether it's true.


— Gustav Klimt


#certain #draw #few #i #i believe

There is no self-portrait of me.


— Gustav Klimt


True relaxation, which would do me the world of good, does not exist for me.


— Gustav Klimt


#exist #good #me #relaxation #true

Although even when I am being idle I have plenty of food for thought both early and late - thoughts both about and not about art.


— Gustav Klimt


#although #am #art #being #both

Even when I have to write a simple letter I'm scared stiff as if faced with looming seasickness.


— Gustav Klimt


#faced #i #letter #looming #scared

If the weather is good I go into the nearby wood - there I am painting a small beech forest (in the sun) with a few conifers mixed in. This takes until 8 'o clock.


— Gustav Klimt


#clock #few #forest #go #good

On my first days here I did not start work immediately but, as planned, I took it easy for a few days - flicked through books, studied Japanese art a little.


— Gustav Klimt


#art work #books #days #did #easy

Sometimes I miss out the morning's painting session and instead study my Japanese books in the open.


— Gustav Klimt


#i #instead #japanese #miss #morning






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Between 1907 and 1909 Klimt painted five canvases of society women wrapped in fur. Klimt died three years later in Vienna on February 6 1918 having suffered a stroke and pneumonia due to the influenza epidemic of that year. Guided walking tours through the city allowed people to see some of the buildings where Klimt worked.

Gustav Klimt (July 14 1862 – February 6 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings murals sketches and other objects d'art.

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