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Amedeo Modigliani Quotes

1884–1920 Italy

Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (12 July 1884 – 24 January 1920) was an Italian painter and sculptor who pursued his career for the most part in France. Influenced by the artists in his circle of friends and associates, by a range of genres and movements, and by primitive art, Modigliani's oeuvre was nonetheless unique and idiosyncratic.

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Also known as: Amedeo MODIGLIANI

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With one eye you are looking at the outside world, while with the other you are looking within yourself.

The function of art is to struggle against obligation.

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.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Amedeo Modigliani (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.