Amedeo Modigliani famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

When I know your soul, I will paint your eyes.
-- Amedeo Modigliani

#Art #Eye #Soul
Happiness is an angel with a serious face
-- Amedeo Modigliani

#Art #Angel #Faces
With one eye you are looking at the outside world, while with the other you are looking within yourself.
-- Amedeo Modigliani

#Eye #World
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

#Real #Race #Mystery
It is your duty in life to save your dream.
-- Amedeo Modigliani

#Dream #Duty
The function of art is to struggle against obligation.
-- Amedeo Modigliani

#Art #Struggle #Function
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 from its development and the mastery of its creation but from the standpoint of what has moved and agitated its creator.
-- Amedeo Modigliani

#Art #Reality #Views
What I look for is neither reality nor unreality but the subconscious, the instinctive mystery of the human race.
-- Amedeo Modigliani

#Reality #Race #Serendipity
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 thought and my work.
-- Amedeo Modigliani

#Rome #Meditation #Harmony
You are not alive unless you know you are living.
-- Amedeo Modigliani

#Alive
I want to be a tuneswept fiddle string that feels the master melody, and snaps...
-- Amedeo Modigliani

#Want #Masters #Strings

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