Quotes About Modigliani

#1. In our young days, when Modigliani and I first came to Paris, in 1906, nobody was very clear about ideas. But unconsciously, we knew quite a lot of things, of which we became aware later on.

Gino Severini

#2. Imitation of the art of earlier centuries, as that done by Picasso and Modigliani , is carried on not to perpetuate ancient values but to demonstrate that new aesthetic orders now prevail.

Harold Rosenberg

#3. The immediate effect of the deficit is to make you feel good, like when you go on a trip and pay later. You feel good, and then you get a hangover. The deficit makes you feel good - until you pay later.

Franco Modigliani

#4. The gratification of desire is not happiness.

Daisaku Ikeda

#5. People confuse economists and economic policy.

Franco Modigliani

#6. The function of art is to struggle against obligation.

Amedeo Modigliani

#7. It is your duty in life to save your dream.

Amedeo Modigliani

#8. When I know your soul, I will paint your eyes

Amedeo Modigliani

#9. When I first saw Jo, I said boom, that was it, because I'm a one-woman man.

Ron Wood

#10. Happiness is an angel with a serious face

Amedeo Modigliani

#11. Luna had never been good at coping with death. After all she had gone through, she knew she should've been trained.
But she wasn't. She was regrettably human.

Kayla Krantz

#12. You are not alive unless you know you are living.

Amedeo Modigliani

#13. A situation where people can grow old without having a job that rewards them individually while adding to the collective well-being is morally unacceptable.

Franco Modigliani

#14. Economists agree about economics - and that's a science - and they disagree about economic policy because that's a value judgment ... I've had profound disagreements on policy with the famous Milton Friedman. But, on economics, we agree.

Franco Modigliani

#15. With the danger of war, there is a danger that the economy will go down.

Franco Modigliani

#16. High leverage is unsafe, not just for a company but the entire economy ... LBOs are reducing the safety. Management loses the power to do many things. It has no margin for error and less margin for additional risk.

Franco Modigliani

#17. What I look for is neither reality nor unreality but the subconscious, the instinctive mystery of the human race.

Amedeo Modigliani

#18. Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken.

Hans Christian Andersen

#19. I want to be a tuneswept fiddle string that feels the master melody, and snaps ...

Amedeo Modigliani

#20. With one eye you are looking at the outside world, while with the other you are looking within yourself.

Amedeo Modigliani

#21. Rome is not outside me, but inside me.. Her feverish sweetness, her tragic countryside, her own beauty and harmony, all these are mine, for my thought and my work.

Amedeo Modigliani

#22. God is unchanging in His love. He loves you. He has a plan for your life. Don't let the newspaper headlines frighten you. God is still sovereign; He's still on the throne.

Billy Graham

#23. There were three reasons why we survived: We had no money, we had no technology, and we had no plan. Every dollar, we used very carefully.

Timothy Ferriss

#24. What I am seeking is not the real and not the unreal but rather the unconscious, the mystery of the instinctive in the human race.

Amedeo Modigliani

#25. One must first learn to fall if one would fly ...

Richard Bach

#26. Every great work of art should be considered like any work of nature. First of all from the point of view of its aesthetic reality and then not just from its development and the mastery of its creation but from the standpoint of what has moved and agitated its creator.

Amedeo Modigliani

#27. Our families cannot choose Christ for us. Our friends cannot do it. God is a great God, but even God can't make the decision for us ... we have to make our own choice.

Billy Graham

#28. I am a believer in cooperation.

Franco Modigliani

#29. You have a wonderful influence. Let it be for good, not for evil.

Oscar Wilde