Giorgio Morandi Quotes

#1. 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

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

Giorgio Morandi

#3. John's heart was hardened against the Lord. His father was God's minister, the ambassador of the King of Heaven, and John could not bow before the throne of grace without first kneeling to his father.

James Baldwin

#4. 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

#5. Without us, in other words, there can never be hope of a We.

Junot Diaz

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

Giorgio Morandi

#7. Giorgio Morandi's paintings make me think that artists may not totally choose, or even control, their subjects or style.

Jerry Saltz

#8. The world cannot be successfully fooled for all time.

Mahatma Gandhi

#9. As a teacher, it's a great help to be teaching philosophical systems you don't believe. You can actually do a better job of presenting them if you leave your beliefs at the door.

William H Gass

#10. Because Jesus paid it all, we are free from the need to do it all. Our identity, worth, and value, are not anchored in what we can accomplish but in what Jesus accomplished for us.

Tullian Tchividjian

#11. He waits a long time. The captain reviews the fingernails

Anthony Doerr

#12. If you miss the first buttonhole, you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#13. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Giorgio Morandi

#15. Nothing is more abstract than reality.

Giorgio Morandi

#16. He sits on the edge of the couch, his hair damp and ruffled in every direction. I turn the page and unfortunately a lurid diagram of an erect penis glares up at me. "I am trying to be a bit more normal." He looks at the page. "How's it working out so far?" "I'm glad this isn't a pop-up book.

Sally Thorne

#17. 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

#18. Make hiring a top priority.

Steve Ballmer