Quotes from Giorgio de Chirico

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.

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

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.

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

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

Architecture completes nature.

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

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.

Et quid amabo nisi quod aenigma est? ("What shall I love if not the enigma?")

et quid amabo nisi quod ænigma est?

Šopenhauer i Ni?e su prvi u?ili o dubokom zna?enju besmislenosti života, i pokazali kako ta besmislenost može da se pretvori u umetnost...Užasna praznina koju su otkrili jeste upravo bezdušna i nepomu?ena lepota materije.

One resembles the other, but in a very strange way, like the resemblance there is between two brothers, or rather between the image of someone we know seen in a dream, and that person in reality; it is, and at the same time it is not, that same person; it is as if there had been a slight and mysterious transfiguration of the features.

A Å¡ta da ljudim, ako ne zagonetku?

A Å¡ta da ljubim, ako ne zagonetku?

There are more puzzles in the shadow of a man walking under the sun than in all past, present, and future religions.

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.

We must hold enormous faith in ourselves.