Giorgio Morandi
Giorgio Morandi
Giorgio Morandiwas an Italian painter and printmaker who specialized in still life. His paintings are noted for their tonal subtlety in depicting apparently simple subjects, which were limited mainly to vases, bottles, bowls, flowers and landscapes...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth20 July 1890
CityBologna, Italy
CountryItaly
understanding looks world
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.
artist dozen half
A half dozen pictures would just about be enough for the life of an artist, for my life.
humble simple mystery
Everything is a mystery, ourselves, and all things both simple and humble.
greatness space filling
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.
world interest visible
What interests me the most is expressing what's in nature, in the visible world, that is.
reality abstract
Nothing is more abstract than reality.
art privacy kind
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.
believe tree world
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.