Giorgio de Chirico Quotes
Giorgio de Chirico's page reads like a dreamy, lofty meditation on art that will intrigue fans of surreal imagination.
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My paintings are small but each one is an enigma
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...and what shall I love if not the enigma.
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One must paint all the phenomena of the world as an enigma.
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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 it will enter the regions of childhood vision and dream.
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One must picture everything in the world as an enigma, and live in the world as if in a vast museum of strangeness.
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Although the dream is a very strange phenomenon and an inexplicable mystery, far more inexplicable is the mystery and aspect our minds confer on certain objects and aspects of life.
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When I close my eyes my vision is even more powerful.
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Everything has two aspects; the current aspect, which we see nearly always and which ordinary men see, and the ghostly and metaphysical aspect, which only rare individuals may see in moments of clairvoyance and metaphysical abstraction.
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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 this way the work will draw nearer to dream and to the mind of a child.
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I believe, however, that such abnormal moments can be found in everyone, and it is all the more fortunate when they occur in individuals with creative talent or with clairvoyant powers.
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There is much more mystery in the shadow of a man walking on a sunny day, than in all religions of the world.
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We must hold enormous faith in ourselves.
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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, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.
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Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men.
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It used to be that painters were crazy and sculptors clever. Today it's the other way around.
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It is essential that the revelation we receive, the conception of an image which embraces a certain thing, which has no sense in itself, which has no subject, which means 'absolutely nothing' from the logical point of view.. ..should speak so strongly in us, evoke such agony or joy, that we feel compelled to paint.