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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.

- Egon Schiele

Other quotes by Egon Schiele

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

- Egon Schiele

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.

- Egon Schiele

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

- Egon Schiele

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.

- Egon Schiele

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

Everything is dead while it lives.

- Egon Schiele

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