De Chirico Paintings Quotes

We must hold enormous faith in ourselves. ~ 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

When I close my eyes my vision is even more powerful. ~ Giorgio De Chirico

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

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. ~ 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, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams. ~ Giorgio De Chirico

It is essential that the revelation we receive, the conception of an image which embraces a certain thing, which has no sense of itself, which has no subject, which means absolutely nothing from the logical point of view ... should speak so strongly in us ... that we feel compelled to paint ... ~ Giorgio De Chirico

I stepped out of the shower and dried my hair, rubbed on body lotion, cleaned my ears. Then to the kitchen to heat up the last of the coffee. Only to discover: no one sitting at the opposite side of the table. Staring at that chair where no one sat, I felt like a tiny child in a De Chirico painting, left behind all alone in a foreign country. ~ Haruki Murakami

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. ~ Giorgio De Chirico

There are a lot of artists in Gowanus, and certain things come into your visual vocabulary from living there - the scale of the subway and the canal, sometimes it almost looks like a de Chirico painting, with the intense angles of the shadows and everything. ~ Dana Schutz

Don't touch me. Don't tell me how beautiful my eyes are, how
soft my hair is, how you love to hear my voice. Don't. Don't pretend
you are falling in love with me. I know you are lying, and every
word you say hurts even more. Let us just be friends, if we can start
there. Can't we? Can't we at least be friends? Get to know each
other a little? Before the wedding, and the bedding, when I will
have to take you as my lord and husband? ~ Melissa De La Cruz

To have a good enemy, choose a friend: He knows where to strike. DIANF DE POITIERS, 1499-1566, MISTRESS OF HENRI II OF FRANCE ~ Robert Greene

The public, therefore, among a democratic people, has a singular power, which aristocratic nations cannot conceive; for it does not persuade others to its beliefs, but it imposes them and makes them permeate the thinking of everyone by a sort of enormous pressure of the mind of all upon the individual intelligence. ~ Alexis De Tocqueville

A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity. ~ Honore De Balzac

Intuition is always right in at least two important ways;
It is always in response to something.
it always has your best interest at heart ~ Gavin De Becker

Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities. ~ Michel De Montaigne

If you let your mind talk you out of things that aren't logical, you're going to have a very boring life. Because grace isn't logical. Love isn't logical. Miracles aren't logical. ~ Barbara De Angelis

To contest an author's right to create a poetic or realistic work is to want to force him to change his temperament, challenge his originality, refuse to allow him to use the eye and the intelligence nature has given him. ~ Guy De Maupassant

I have motorsport in my DNA and there's no way I can stay away from that world. ~ Maria De Villota

Does it serve any purpose to ungild the crown of Louis XIV, to scrape the coat of arms of Henry IV? We scoff at M. de Vaublanc for erasing the N's from the bridge of Jena! What was it that he did? What are we doing? Bouvines belongs to us as well as Marengo. The fleurs-de-lys are ours as well as the N's. That is our patrimony. To what purpose shall we diminish it? We must not deny our country in the past any more than in the present. Why not accept the whole of history? Why not love the whole of France?" It ~ Victor Hugo

A supernatural instrument before whose miracle we used to stand amazed, and which we now employ without giving it a thought, to summon our tailor or to order an ice cream ~ Alain De Botton

I don't know if there's enough vision. Industry wide, the apathy regarding this recent problem is already setting in - shiny things are happening elsewhere, people are forgetting. ~ Theo De Raadt

Young man,' Porbus said, seeing Poussin stare open-mouthed at a picture, 'Don't look at the canvas too long, it will drive you to despair. ~ Honore De Balzac

She wanted to live, and live fully, and to give life, she who loved life! What was the good of existing, if you couldn't give yourself? ~ Emile Zola

I was to look around me as though I had never been in this place before. And slowly, my travels began to bear fruit. ~ Alain De Botton

Man is born barbarous
he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated. ~ Alphonse De Lamartine

Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak. ~ Madame De Stael

Time steals away without any inconvenience. ~ Michel De Montaigne

I have never made any distinction between those who have taken vows and those who have not; some should not be overburdened in order to spare others. ~ Vincent De Paul

Sex will never be simple or nice in the ways we might like it to be,It is not fundamentally democratic or kind; it is bound up with cruelty, transgression and the desire for subjugation and humiliation. It refuses to sit neatly on top of love, as it should. ~ Alain De Botton

That by listening to some music, by reading some books, by looking at paintings, and most important by hanging out with one another - by collaborating with one another and creating your own network - you can achieve something that is much better than what is out there. ~ David Amram

Whatever that spark is that makes each one of us alive and unique ... mine had gone. Stolen like paintings on the wall. The flickering flame responsible for lighting me up from the inside, making me glow; keeping me warm... my candle had been blown out. I was shut down. I was tired. I was afraid. Small. Quiet. ~ Shonda Rhimes

From arrogance grow many branches from which evils come, so many as may cause the loss of soul and body, honor and wealth. ~ Geoffroi De Charny

War has been the necessary and inevitable consequence of the establishment of a monopoly on security. ~ Gustave De Molinari

If ever the free institutions of America are destroyed, that event may be attributed to the unlimited authority of the majority, which may at some future time urge the minorities to desperation, and oblige them to have recourse to physical force. Anarchy will then be the result, but it will have been brought about by despotism. ~ Alexis De Tocqueville

I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good. ~ Mies Van De Rohe

Radicalism is but the desperation of logic. ~ Alphonse De Lamartine