To restrict the artist is a ...

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

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My mother is a very strange woman... She doesn't understand me in the least and doesn't love me much either. If she had either love or understanding she would be prepared to make sacrifices
 Egon Schiele
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