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

- Giorgio Morandi

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

- Giorgio Morandi

Nothing is more abstract than reality.

- Giorgio Morandi

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

- Giorgio Morandi

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 bei…

- Giorgio Morandi

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

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 interme…

- Giorgio Morandi

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 val…

- Giorgio Morandi