Sometimes I miss out the mornings painting session and instead study my Japanese books in the open. – Gustav Klimt
There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. Im a painter who paints day in day out, from morning till evening – figure pictures and landscapes, more rarely portraits. – Gustav Klimt
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
A mixture of light and heat… orange plays a brilliant part in the decoration of the universe. It gives life to the harmonies of the dawn, and mingling with the dramatic scene of declining day, it adds its numberless vibrations to the endless novelty of spectacle which the sinking sun presents. – Charles Blanc, Art in Ornament and Dress, “Personal Adornment: Colours and Their