"One must picture everything in the world as……" — Giorgio de Chirico
"One must picture everything in the world as an enigma, and live in the world as if in a vast museum of strangeness."
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Giorgio de Chirico
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9 Quotes by Giorgio de Chirico
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When I close my eyes my vision is even more powerful.
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To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere.…
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Everything has two aspects; the current aspect, which we see nearly always and which ordinary men see, and the ghostly…
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Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and…
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Although the dream is a very strange phenomenon and an inexplicable mystery, far more inexplicable is the mystery and aspect…
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It is essential that the revelation we receive, the conception of an image which embraces a certain thing, which has…
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We must hold enormous faith in ourselves.
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I believe, however, that such abnormal moments can be found in everyone, and it is all the more fortunate when…
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More Enigma Quotes
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Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.
— Honore de Balzac
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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
— Jean Baudrillard
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Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
— Winston Churchill
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A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
— Diane Arbus
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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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With the strength of his spiritual sight and insight the distance, and as it were the space, around man continually…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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If knowing answers to life's questions is absolutely necessary to you, then forget the journey. You will never make it,…
— Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
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By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analyzing the observations that I had made, I…
— M.C. Escher
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The definitive resolution of the UFO enigma will not come about unless and until the problem is subjected to open…
— Peter A. Sturrock
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It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application,…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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It has been my firm belief, based on my research and investigations over the past half century, that UFOs and…
— George Fawcett
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The abstraction, ostensibly, is simply for me the penetration of something that is more profound in many ways than rigidity…
— Unknown Author
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