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 …

- Amedeo Modigliani

The function of art is to struggle against obligation.

- Amedeo Modigliani

It is your duty in life to save your dream.

- Amedeo Modigliani

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

- Amedeo Modigliani

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

- Amedeo Modigliani

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

- Amedeo Modigliani

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

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 though…

- Amedeo Modigliani

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

- Amedeo Modigliani