16.3.08

GUSTAV KLIMT

"I can paint and draw".
"I believe as much myself and others also they say they believe it. But I am not sure that it is true. Only two things are certain: 1. I have never painted a self-portrait. I am less interested in myself as a subject for a painting than I am in other people, above all women. But other subjects interest me even more. I am convinced that I am not particulary interesting as a person... 2. I have the gift of neither the spoken nor the written word, especially If I have to say something about myself or my work... Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist, the only notable thing - ought to look carefully at my pictures and try to see in them what I am and what I want to do".