"Nothing is more abstract than reality." — Giorgio Morandi
"Nothing is more abstract than reality."
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Giorgio Morandi
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8 Quotes by Giorgio Morandi
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I am essentially a painter of the kind of still life composition that communicates a sense of tranquillity and privacy,…
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Everything is a mystery, ourselves, and all things both simple and humble.
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I believe that nothing can be more abstract, more unreal, than what we actually see. We know that all we…
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A half dozen pictures would just about be enough for the life of an artist, for my life.
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One can travel this world and see nothing. To achieve understanding it is necessary not to see many things, but…
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You cannot demonstrate your own greatness by remaining at one extreme, but by reaching out to both extremes at the…
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What interests me the most is expressing what's in nature, in the visible world, that is.
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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
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I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really…
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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
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None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
— Theodor Adorno
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Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some…
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Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still…
— Nicolas Cage
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I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
— Eric Cantona
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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
— Al Capp
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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change…
— Saul Alinsky
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Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply…
— John Dewey
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It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without…
— Giorgio Armani
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