Giorgio De Chirico Quotes

One must picture everything in the world as an enigma, and live in the world as if in a vast museum of strangeness.

There is much more mystery in the shadow of a man walking on a sunny day, than in all religions of the world.

When I close my eyes my vision is even more powerful.

We must hold enormous faith in ourselves.

Although the dream is a very strange phenomenon and an inexplicable mystery, far more inexplicable is the mystery and aspect our minds confer on certain objects and aspects of life.

Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men.

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