Amedeo Modigliani Professions : Painter Born : July 12, 1884 Died : January 24, 1920 Browse All Authors Top 11 quotes by Amedeo Modigliani When I know your soul, I will paint your eyes. Amedeo Modigliani eye soul art With one eye you are looking at the outside world, while with the other you are looking within yourself. Amedeo Modigliani outside-world eye world What I am seeking is not the real and not the unreal but rather the unconscious, the mystery of the instinctive in the human race. Amedeo Modigliani mystery real race It is your duty in life to save your dream. Amedeo Modigliani your-dreams duty dream Happiness is an angel with a serious face Amedeo Modigliani angel faces art What I look for is neither reality nor unreality but the subconscious, the instinctive mystery of the human race. Amedeo Modigliani serendipity race reality 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. Amedeo Modigliani views reality art The function of art is to struggle against obligation. Amedeo Modigliani function struggle art You are not alive unless you know you are living. Amedeo Modigliani alive knows I want to be a tuneswept fiddle string that feels the master melody, and snaps. Amedeo Modigliani strings masters want Rome is not outside me, but inside me.. Her feverish sweetness, her tragic countryside, her own beauty and harmony, all these are mine, for my thought and my work. Amedeo Modigliani harmony rome meditation Similar Authors Barry McGee painter Brion Gysin painter Bridget Riley painter Boris Vallejo painter Allan Kaprow painter Augustus John painter All Authors