Amedeo Modigliani

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.

Quotes

 * 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.
 * Attributed without citation at The Art Story.


 * The function of art is to struggle against obligation.
 * Attributed without citation at History of Painters


 * With one eye you are looking at the outside world, while with the other you are looking within yourself.
 * Attributed without citation at History of Painters

Quotes about Amedeo Modigliani

 * There's no doubt but that without this liberté, égalité and fraternité there could not have been a Monet, Modigliani, Picasso, or Giacometti.
 * Ollie Harrington, Why I Left America and Other Stories (1994)