Gustav Klimt Quotes
"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
(Related: Painting, Weather, Wood)
"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
(Related: Artist, Want)
"True relaxation, which would do me the world of good, does not exist for me."
- Gustav Klimt
(Related: Relaxation, World)
"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."
- Gustav Klimt
(Related: Day, Evening, Nothing, Portraits)
"After tea it's back to painting - a large poplar at dusk with a gathering storm. From time to time instead of this evening painting session I go bowling in one of the neighbouring villages, but not very often."
- Gustav Klimt
(Related: Time, Evening, Painting, Tea)
"All art is erotic."
- Gustav Klimt
(Related: Art)
"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
(Related: People)
"Even when I have to write a simple letter I'm scared stiff as if faced with looming seasickness."
- Gustav Klimt
"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
(Related: Art, Food, Thought, Thoughts, Being)
"Sometimes I miss out the morning's painting session and instead study my Japanese books in the open."
- Gustav Klimt
(Related: Books, Open, Painting, Study)
"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
(Related: Art, Work, Books, First)