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Amedeo Modigliani | Quotes / Aforismi

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  • When I know your soul, I will paint your eyes.
  • Quando conoscerò la tua anima, dipingerò i tuoi occhi.

  • It is your duty in life to save your dream.
  • Il tuo unico dovere è salvare i tuoi sogni.



  • La vita è un dono, dei pochi ai molti, di coloro che sanno e che hanno a coloro che non sanno e che non hanno.
  • Noi abbiamo dei diritti diversi dagli altri perché abbiamo dei bisogni diversi che ci mettono al di sopra della loro morale.

  • 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.
  • Happiness is an angel with a serious face.


  • I want to be a tuneswept fiddle string that feels the master melody, and snaps...
  • The function of art is to struggle against obligation.


  • 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.
  • You are not alive unless you know you are living.

  • 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.