Austrian Artist Quotes

Gustav Klimt

Egon Schiele

Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Heinrich Harrer

Gottfried Helnwein

Helmut Lang (artist)

There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning till evening - figure pictures and landscapes, more rarely portraits.

I want to cover all areas that can be depicted visually. This ranges from fairytales to attempts to enter the abstract and view oneself as a social outcast or someone struggling to stay alive.

Fashion designers must give a social reflection of the things which are going on. Fashion is a kind of communication. It's a language without words. Fashion is about attitude, not hemlines.

Helmut Lang (artist)

Today we live in a chaos of straight lines, in a jungle of straight lines. If you do not believe this, take the trouble to count the straight lines which surround you. Then you will understand, for you will never finish counting.

Friedensreich Hundertwasser

I have settled down in this border area; I am trying to find distinct standards of shape, and I long to experience, formulate, and evoke this dark, heavy, tranquillity.

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

Imaginations and illusions are always so much more powerful and bigger than this mediocre and boring thing called reality.

Gottfried Helnwein

Wherever I live, I shall feel homesick for Tibet. I often think I can still hear the cries of wild geese and cranes and the beating of their wings as they fly over Lhasa in the clear, cold moonlight. My heartfelt wish is that my story may create some understanding for a people whose will to live in peace and freedom has won so little sympathy from an indifferent world.

Heinrich Harrer

Just as typography is human speech translated into what can be read, so photography is the translation of reality into a readable image.

The power and force of stone reside in its mass, its weight, and its density.