Amedeo Modigliani Quotes

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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

The function of art is to struggle against obligation.

Amedeo Modigliani

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

Amedeo Modigliani

Amedeo Modigliani

Amedeo Modigliani

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Born: July 12, 1884

Died: January 24, 1920 (aged 35)

Bio: Amedeo Clemente Modigliani was an Italian painter and sculptor who worked mainly in France.

Known for:

Reclining Nude (1919)
Nu couché (1917)
Portrait of Maude Abrantes (1907)
Gypsy Woman with Baby (1919)
Portrait of Jeanne Hebuterne in a large hat (1918)

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