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“... good drawings could become naughty pictures, embarrassing transgressions. In Klimt’s protégé Egon Schiele this ambivalence disappears. His self-portrait with Klimt of 1912 is the closest thing here to a great picture. The figures, both wearing smocks, stand close together – a blue smock belonging to Klimt can be seen in the exhibition. There is no ...”

“... invariably steers the conversation towards paedophilia by way of his obsessive identification with Egon Schiele. This is confusing, as his interest in his stepmother suggests quite the opposite inclination. Anyway, the topic invariably arouses in Lucrecia the same mixture of inadmissible tinglings – and uncertainty as to the child’s true nature. Even ...”

“... volume is one of its most painful lapses. Another is the near-total neglect of the painter Egon Schiele, who is fleetingly mentioned on page 7 and never again. As Kokoschka’s counterpart and counter-pole, Schiele should have been accorded a crucial place in Schorske’s final apotheosis of Vienna’s ...”

“... son, but the riddle-solver. Non-Jews shared these qualities: Adolf Loos in architecture, Egon Schiele in painting, Ernst Mach in physics. Beller’s thesis rather undervalues their autonomous role, though it is true that they were now a minority within the cultural élite and the non-Jewish middle class. Nor did all Jews fit the rational-liberal ...”

“... sitting in a well-stuffed armchair about which he was particular, and spread out before him Egon Schiele prints, or the Editions Lavrentine Dante in vellum, or a slightly foxed 18th-century Maimonides translated into Ladino and printed in Sofia, or, sometimes, a regretful letter from Paris explaining that the volume of Klimt had been sold to a ...”

“... sentimentality and inability to observe’. Had I been in Greig’s position, I might have offered Egon Schiele as a Viennese ancestor, for the gynaecological poses, the loose brushwork and the colouring (see, for instance, Self-Portrait with Raised Bare Shoulder which advertises the current show at the National Gallery). But I would have been slapped ...”

“... or his taxi. In any case, he did me the great favour of making me realise that I looked like a bad Egon Schiele drawing. After the first five days of chemo, I began to get sores in my mouth. Each day they got worse. When I went for a blood test, it was discovered that some of the cell counts were very low. The hospital phoned and asked if I was all ...”