It is essential that the revelation we receive, the conception of an image which embraces a certain thing, … - Giorgio de Chirico

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I think more and more people are starting to understand that you can't believe half of everything you read or what you see. There are so many information outlets that are available that it's almost too much, there is so much misinformation out there.

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.

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

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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.

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

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Everything has two aspects; the current aspect, which we see nearly always and which ordinary men see, and the ghostly and metaphysical aspect, which only rare individuals may see in moments of clairvoyance and metaphysical abstraction.

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

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