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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?

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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...

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

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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Egon Schiele

Egon Schiele
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Born: June 12, 1890
Died: October 31, 1918 (aged 28)
Bio: Egon Schiele was an Austrian painter. A protégé of Gustav Klimt, Schiele was a major figurative painter of the early 20th century. His work is noted for its intensity and its raw sexuality, and the many self-portraits the artist produced, including naked self-portraits.
Known for:
  1. Portrait of Wally (1912)
  2. Seated Woman with Bent Knee (1917)
  3. Portrait of Gerti Schiele (1909)
  4. House with Shingles (1915)
  5. Death and the Maiden (1915)

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