Morandi Quotes

#1. Morandi suggests we are all single in this world, hoping for independent repose. But our best opportunity for a community of excellence depends upon a collection of enlightened individuals.

Wayne Thiebaud

#2. Morandi gave an intimate view of his deepest thoughts. We watched him inquiring after the devilish questions of essences and substances.

Wayne Thiebaud

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

Jerry Saltz

#4. 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

#5. Nothing is more abstract than reality.

Giorgio Morandi

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

Giorgio Morandi

#7. Employment was better than idleness for men, because it kept the enemy guessing.

H.W. Brands

#8. When the stars threw down their spears, and watered heaven with their tears, did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

William Blake

#9. In 1968 I frequently would sit in a photo booth and practice self mirror images which I then documented photographically. Curious types would always open the curtains and chase me away. Today I work with a photographer.

Arnulf Rainer

#10. Getting back to the point, a guy like Jerry, he deals with the business, and he doesn't see it as being evil or ugly, it's what you have to do, and I mean I know there's some really ugly parts to it and parts which drive me nuts, but not in the same way as music business.

Trevor Rabin

#11. My 10 year old son likes it. He's trying to play guitar and everything. He likes that kind of music.

Merle Haggard

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

Giorgio Morandi

#13. No headboards were broken.

John Green

#14. It's a timeline!' Elysia exclaimed.
'Thanks, Captain Obvious,' said Ferbus.
Elysia glared at him. 'Thank you, Captain Overused Expression.'
'No, thank you, Captain Shut Your Facehole.

Gina Damico

#15. 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

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

Giorgio Morandi

#17. 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