Giorgio Morandi Quotes

People in coats and ties were milling around the Talley gallery, and on the wall were the minimally rendered still lifes by Giorgio Morandi, most of them no bigger than a tea tray. Their thin browns, ashy grays, and muted blues made people speak softly to one another, as if a shouted word might curdle one of the paintings and ruin it. Bottles, carafes, and ceramic whatnots sat in his paintings like small animals huddling for warmth, and these shy pictures could easily hang next to a Picasso or Matisse without feeling inferior.

A few years later, after reading something written by the painter Giorgio Morandi, I had an inkling: “One can travel this world and see nothing. To achieve understanding it’s necessary not to see many things, but to look hard at what you do see.