Top 8 Quotes by Giorgio Morandi

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 do see.

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 do see.

Giorgio Morandi

Understanding, Looks, World

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 world, as human beings, never really exists as we see and understand it. Matter exists, of course, but has no intrinsic meaning of its own, such as the meanings that we attach to it. We can know only that a cup is a cup, that a tree is a tree.

Giorgio Morandi

Believe, Tree, World

Karen Wilkin, Giorgio Morandi (1997). “Giorgio Morandi”, Rizzoli International Publications

Nothing is more abstract than reality.

Giorgio Morandi

Reality, Abstract

Karen Wilkin, Giorgio Morandi (2007). “Giorgio Morandi: works, writings and interviews”, Poligrafa Ediciones Sa

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 valued above all else.

Giorgio Morandi

Art, Privacy, Kind

Karen Wilkin, Giorgio Morandi (2007). “Giorgio Morandi: works, writings and interviews”, Poligrafa Ediciones Sa

Everything is a mystery, ourselves, and all things both simple and humble.

Giorgio Morandi

Humble, Simple, Mystery

What interests me the most is expressing what's in nature, in the visible world, that is.

Giorgio Morandi

World, Interest, Visible

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 intermediate space.

Giorgio Morandi

Greatness, Space, Reaching