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Quotes of Gustav Klimt;

Even when I have to write a simple letter I'm scared stiff as if faced with looming seasickness.
For this reason one will have to do without an artistic or literary self-portrait of me. This is not really to be regretted.

I can paint and draw. I believe this myself and a few other people say that they believe this too. But I'm not certain of whether it's true.

There is no self-portrait of me.

There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning till evening - figure pictures and landscapes, more rarely portraits.

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

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I have my own goal. It's not abstract but accurate and detaile.
As my career, I want to work in the World News area as the editor, analyst, or corresspondant,
even a just worker in that area to report the reality of the hidden areas and something very nice
strories not very cruel and harrassed stuff.

But my ultimate goal is making documentaries and the stories which are full of truth and the diversity of the world. And Represnt them to the people in the world indeed.

I have asked to myself since the age when I can actually start to think logically;
What makes you and me different?
Why do you and I live differently?
What make you people be given the streo type A culture is better than B?
Why people always do try others to fit themselves and force them to do?
Why the soceity has the stornger and the wearker?
Why some deny the way you are, and the actual soul and body of some others?

So, I want to have journey to find the answers of my questions.
Like Kilmt, I have aimed to leave many many works of mine then finally make others think
and touched by my works than the actual body of me; myself.

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Gustav Klimt; Date of Birth: July 14, 1862 in Austria, died Feb, 6, 1918.

Personally, I don't know about Art very much.

But I like some painters; Toulouse-Lautrec, Nara Yoshitomo, and Gustav Klimt.

Among them I like Gustav Klimt the most, to be more precisely, I like his paintings and his own style in the paintings, but not him as a person. This is becuase as he left some memos about him, he didn't want to be known as 'a painter', but he wanted to leave many paintings and be known as 'a person who drews the paintings'.

As he said, he was very interested in the female figure to indicate and describe in his paintings.

So you can see many half-naked, whole-naked, or dressed women very often of his works.

Also I think he always pursuaded the eroticism of his art works, that was why most of his protagonists or models of the paintings are naked, and doing some sexual gestures of actions.

Apart from the form of his works I think he was very keen on decoration of his arts, and also ornaments of the frame as well.

Most of figures in the paintings wear such an abstract but over decorated clothes with ractangles, triagles, and circles with flowers etc.

In terms of using the colour, I notice he enjoyed using the gold yellow and brown as well, from this use, I feel his paintings are very authentic, but also very sophistacted and luxurious.

To help you understand, I am gonna give you some paintings of him below;

Judith and the Head of Holofernes, 1901.

This is the painting about the female, named Judith who is known as the heroine of Israel.

She is described as the encouraged woman who killed the head of enemy; the General.Holofernes in the Old-Testament. Indeed she cheered many soldiers of her country, then led her homecountry to win the War.

Many chose Judith as the Theme or the Progonist of their paintings. For instance, there are two different painters; Karavajo (1598-9) Rome, Artemisia Gentileski (1620s) Florence.

But those painters were lived in the Renessance era, so the paintings are very accurate to describe the actual action of Judith; cutting the neck of Holofernes on the bed.

However, Kilmt's Judith is quite abstract due to holding a neck of a male, and her facial expression is not very extrovert to kill him. But looks very erotic and see the viewers with such a ironic gesture.

Maybe I think Klimt is in the Modern Era, and and known as the Symbolism painter that's why he dipicted Judith in such a different way from the past.

Anyway, I like some other paintings of him either.

Portrait of Emilie Floge (1902)

She was a relative of Klimt, however she was the person who Klimt wanted to see before he died.

I think he didn't demand her to take off clothes, but left quite a lot of paintings of her.

And this painting looks really fashoinable. quite short hair with perm, very white skin with blue eyes, but also nice clothes with nice ornaments with circles etc.

The whole painting is very long so far.

Anyway, My ramble writing isn't enough to describe Klimt and his paintings.

But for me he is a person who gives me motivation of my future and dream a lot.

So I like his abstract arts with full of ornaments.