Giorgio Morandi Quotes

I like all those painters who loved and had a strong feeling for nature.

I always start a painting with the sky.

Art is about the messy and marvelous business of coming to your senses - and also, to the senses of the world.

Nature is my springboard. From her I get my initial impetus. I have tried to relate the visible drama of mountains, trees, and bleached fields with the fantasy of wind blowing and changing colors and forms.

Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.

Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.

Land really is the best art.

Photography is a big part of my life: taking photographs, being around photographers.

I like it when it rains; I like it when it snows. I like seasons. I like trees. I like mountains. I like rivers. And with that around me, I write.

Art is the child of Nature.

The truth... When they have a similar structure to and are organized in as truthful a way as nature. When I look out of the window, then truth for me is the way nature shows itself in its various tones, colours and proportions. That's a truth and has its own correctness. This little slice of nature, and in fact any given piece of nature, represents to me an ongoing challenge, and is a model for my paintings.

It seems to me that when I see nature I see it ready-made, completely written - but then, try to do it!

Music represents nature. Nature represents life. Jazz represents nature. Jazz is life.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance.

Organized perception is what art is all about.

The observation of nature is part of an artist's life.

This world has need of song and sword.

Art is not tame, and Nature is not wild, in the ordinary sense. A perfect work of man's art would also be wild or natural in a good sense.

My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece

For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.

Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, from every abstract form, from all that is of the brain only.

Art is the expression of the conviction that we can have a rational relationship with the world and each other. It isn't the faith or hope that we can, it is the demonstration that we can.

All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.

Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.

Photography is better than art. It is a solar phenomenon in which the artist collaborates with the sun.