Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men.

- Giorgio De Chirico

If a work of art is to be truly immortal, it must pass quite beyond the limits of the human world, without any sign of common sense and logic. In thi…

- Giorgio De Chirico

One must picture everything in the world as an enigma, and live in the world as if in a vast museum of strangeness.

- Giorgio De Chirico

To become truly immortal a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken i…

- Giorgio De Chirico

We must hold enormous faith in ourselves.

- Giorgio De Chirico

There is much more mystery in the shadow of a man walking on a sunny day, than in all religions of the world.

- Giorgio De Chirico

It used to be that painters were crazy and sculptors clever. Today it's the other way around.

- Giorgio De Chirico

Although the dream is a very strange phenomenon and an inexplicable mystery, far more inexplicable is the mystery and aspect our minds confer on cert…

- Giorgio De Chirico

Everything has two aspects: the current aspect, which we see nearly always and which ordinary men see, and the ghostly and metaphysical aspect, which…

- Giorgio De Chirico