Top 11 Quotes by 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.

One must picture everything in the world as an enigma, and live in the world as if in a vast museum of strangeness.

Inspirational, Live Life, Museums

There is much more mystery in the shadow of a man walking on a sunny day, than in all religions of the world.

Men, Shadow, World

To become truly immortal a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken it will enter the regions of childhood vision and dream.

Giorgio de Chirico

Dream, Art, Escaping

"Letters of the great artists - from Ghiberti to Gainsborough" by Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, (p. 231), 1963.

When I close my eyes my vision is even more powerful.

Giorgio de Chirico

Powerful, Eye, Perception

Giorgio De Chirico, José María Faerna (1995). “De Chirico”, Harry N. Abrams

Everything has two aspects: the current aspect, which we see nearly always and which ordinary men see, and the ghostly and metaphysical aspect, which only rare individuals may see in moments of clairvoyance and metaphysical abstraction.

Giorgio de Chirico

Men, Two, Ordinary

"Artists on Art - from the 14th - 20th centuries" edited by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves; Pantheon Books, London, (p. 440), 1972.

If a work of art is to be truly immortal, it must pass quite beyond the limits of the human world, without any sign of common sense and logic. In this way the work will draw nearer to dream and to the mind of a child.

Giorgio de Chirico

Dream, Art, Children

Quoted in Saranne Alexandrian Surrealist Art (1970).

Although the dream is a very strange phenomenon and an inexplicable mystery, far more inexplicable is the mystery and aspect our minds confer on certain objects and aspects of life.

Giorgio de Chirico

Dream, Mind, Strange

Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men.

Giorgio de Chirico

Art, Butterfly, Men

We must hold enormous faith in ourselves.

Giorgio de Chirico

Faith, Enormous

"Letters of the great artists - from Ghiberti to Gainsborough" by Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, (p. 232), 1963.

It used to be that painters were crazy and sculptors clever. Today it's the other way around.

Giorgio de Chirico

Clever, Crazy, Today

It is essential that the revelation we receive, the conception of an image which embraces a certain thing, which has no sense in itself, which has no subject, which means 'absolutely nothing' from the logical point of view.. ..should speak so strongly in us, evoke such agony or joy, that we feel compelled to paint.

Giorgio de Chirico

Mean, Views, Desire

"Letters of the great artists - from Ghiberti to Gainsborough" by Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, (p. 232), 1963.