Morandi's Quotes

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

Jerry Saltz

#2. Sinatra is the essence of vocal style. This man has an innate quality of knowing what is good musically. You can sum that up best by saying that he has musical integrity. Even when he does a bad song, there's a good quality in the presentation.

Sammy Davis Jr.

#3. If you're watching, Eo, it's time to close your eyes.

Pierce Brown

#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. Godly fear, faith, and humility is the true threefold cord that can't easily be broken (see Ecclesiastes 4:12).

John Bevere

#6. Being gay is normal; what's abnormal is having to hide who you are for fear of society.

Ben Tolosa

#7. This is about more." He arched, tilting a little.
Billy set the weight swinging again. "Tell me what it's about."
"Uh ... It's ... I ... It's about everything. It's like you're inside me, like my bones.

Sean Michael

#8. Like everybody, my views on many issues have changed as I have gotten older.

Bob McDonnell

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

Wayne Thiebaud

#10. Nothing is more abstract than reality.

Giorgio Morandi

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

Giorgio Morandi

#12. Integrity is keeping my commitments even if the circumstances when I made those commitments have changed.

David Jeremiah

#13. 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

#14. And that was how the Selection did its first act in my favor: if I had her here, at least I had the chance to try.

Kiera Cass

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

Giorgio Morandi

#16. Pride had held me prisoner for too long,

J.L. Campbell

#17. When does the external work improve? It improves when inner peace is attained.

Dada Bhagwan

#18. There's nothing which the lapse of time will not either extinguish or improve.

Publilius Syrus

#19. 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

#20. I remember being young in the 1960s ... we had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. This being able to dream and to change the world.

Bernardo Bertolucci

#21. We're lonely down here," he said. "It's true. But we're not alone.

Lauren Groff

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

Giorgio Morandi

#23. 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