Giorgio Morandi Quotes

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.

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.

Nothing is more abstract than reality.

A half dozen pictures would just about be enough for the life of an artist, for my life.

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

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.