Parkstone International

Foreword
“Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.”

— Epictetus

see a woman only in her underwear is infinitely more sensual and sexual than seeing a woman entirely naked.

A designer’s work should be orientated towards this fulfilment.

and with a sublimity that comes from its simple existence, not from its significance

Schiele responded that for him there exists no modernity, only the “eternal”.

Schiele”s art represents the erotic portrayal of the human body.

. His models characterize an incredible freedom with respect to their own sexuality, self-love, homosexuality or voyeuristic attitudes, as well as skillful seduction of the viewer.

He knows that the urge to look is interconnected with the mechanisms of disgust and allure.

In 1897, Klimt together with his Viennese fellow artists founded the Vienna Secession, a splinter group separated from the officially accepted conduct for artists under the motto: “To the times its art, to the art its freedom”

“We learn to see what flows beneath.
We learn the prehistory of the visible.
We learn to dig deep and to lay bare, to explain, to analyse.” Paul Klee