Giorgio Morandi Quotes

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• I am essentially a painter of the kind of still life composition that communicates a sense of tranquillity and privacy, moods which I have always…
• Everything is a mystery, ourselves, and all things both simple and humble.
• I believe that nothing can be more abstract, more unreal, than what we actually see. We know that all we can see of the objective…
• A half dozen pictures would just about be enough for the life of an artist, for my life.
• Nothing is more abstract than reality.
• One can travel this world and see nothing. To achieve understanding it is necessary not to see many things, but to look hard at what…
• You cannot demonstrate your own greatness by remaining at one extreme, but by reaching out to both extremes at the same time, and filling the…
• What interests me the most is expressing what's in nature, in the visible world, that is.

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