Egon Schiele

“Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.”

“I am a human being, I love death and I love life.”

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

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

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

“I do not believe that there is a 'modern art' - there is only one art and that is art.”

“I am so rich that I must give myself away.”

“At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers.”

“Everything is living dead.”

“One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants.”

“No work of art is erotic. The work of art is the artist.”

“I paint the light which comes from all bodies.”