Gustav Klimt

There is no self-portrait of myself. I am not interested in my own person as a subject for painting, but rather in others, especially women, and, more than that, in other appearances.

I can paint and draw. I do not talk about it. It is my gift. I do not know how other people feel, but I know how I feel and what I do.

All art is erotic.

Whoever wants to know something about me as an artist, which is the only thing that matters, should look carefully at my pictures and try to see in them what I am and what I want.

When I am in my studio, I am in another world. I am free to do what I want. I am free to think what I want. I am free to be what I want.

I have never painted a self-portrait. I am less interested in myself as a subject for painting than I am in other people, above all women, but other subjects are more interesting to me.

If you don't like it, you don't have to look at it.

I am a painter, who has painted a series of pictures. I don't know what else I am.

Art is a line around your thoughts.

I want to be an artist. I want to paint. I want to be free.

I believe that the most important thing for an artist is to be true to himself.

I have nothing to say about myself as a person.

There are always two sides to everything, the good and the bad. The good is always more beautiful.

Truth is a torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.

I have spent my whole life painting. I have nothing else to say.

Art is a sanctuary from the world.

My work is not for everyone. It is for those who understand.

I am not interested in myself.

I am a silent painter. I do not talk about my work.

The artist is a creator, not a commentator.