Giorgio de Chirico Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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