Quotes from Giorgio Morandi

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

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 valued above all else.

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

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.

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

I believe that nothing can be more abstract, more unreal, than what we actually see.