Frasi di Giorgio De Chirico

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Giorgio De Chirico

Data di nascita: 10. Luglio 1888
Data di morte: 20. Novembre 1978

Giorgio de Chirico è stato un pittore e scrittore italiano, principale esponente della corrente artistica della pittura metafisica.

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Frasi Giorgio De Chirico

„Un'opera d'arte per divenire immortale deve sempre superare i limiti dell'umano senza preoccuparsi né del buon senso né della logica. citazione necessaria“

— Giorgio De Chirico

Sull'arte

„La potenza intellettuale di un uomo si misura dalla dose di umorismo che è capace di utilizzare. “

— Giorgio De Chirico

Sulla pace

„Un buon artista cerca di lavorare bene, sia col fascio che con la stella rossa, con la repubblica o con la monarchia. Nell'arte si esprimono solo il valore e il temperamento dell'individuo.“

— Giorgio De Chirico

Sull'arte

„Dovete aver notato che da qualche tempo c'è qualcosa di cambiato nelle arti; non parliamo di neoclassicismo, di ritorno ecc.; vi sono degli uomini, dei quali probabilmente anche voi fate parte, che, arrivati a un limite della loro arte, si sono domandati: dove andiamo? Hanno sentito il bisogno di una base più solida; non hanno rinnegato nulla... Ma un problema mi tormenta da circa tre anni: il problema del mestiere: è per questo che mi sono messo a copiare nei musei.“

— Giorgio De Chirico
da una lettera pubblicata su Littérature

Sugli uomini, sull'arte

„Perché un'opera d'arte sia veramente immortale, deve uscire completamente dai confini dell'umano: l'intelligenza media e la logica le nuocciono. La concezione di un'opera d'arte che afferra una cosa che come tale non ha alcun senso, alcun tema, che dal punto di vista della logica umana non vuole assolutamente dir nulla, io dico che una tale rivelazione o concezione dev'essere in noi così forte, deve apportare tal gioia o tale dolore, che noi siamo costretti a dipingere, come il morto di fame a addentare un pezzo di pane che gli capita tra le dita.“

— Giorgio De Chirico

Sulla fame, sul dolore, sull'arte

„Ieri, nel pomeriggio passando per una via che s'allunga stretta e fiancheggiata da case alte e scure vidi apparire in fondo una colonna sormontata da una statua che seppi poi essere quella dell'Ariosto. Visto così, tra quelle due pareti di pietra annerata – che parevano muri d'un santuario antico – il monumento assumeva un che di misterioso e solenne, e il passante tampoco metafisicizzante si sarebbe aspettati di udire la voce di un nume vaticinare d'in fondo la piazza.“

— Giorgio De Chirico

„Dear Mr. Rosenberg - I was very surprised this morning that you refused to give me 2,000 fr. especially given that I had told you that my wife was gravely ill in Berlin and that I needed to leave immediately. You probably thought it was a tale I was telling you in order to shave some money off the sum that you owe me; to prove to you that this is not the case, I enclose with this letter a telegram that I received this morning. Strong though the crisis may be and as strongly as you may have applied the brakes, it is not possible that you are not able to find 1,000 fr. for a painter with whom you have done business for six years now and who (I dare hope) enjoys all your esteem; especially given that the said painter tells you that his wife is seriously ill and that he needs to leave.
I should tell you that in general the way you act in these times of crises is not particularly heroic.“

— Giorgio de Chirico
Quote from De Chirico's letter to Mr. Rosenberg, Paris, 3 May, 1930; from LETTERS BY GIORGIO DE CHIRICO TO LÉONCE ROSENBERG, 1925-1939 http://www.fondazionedechirico.org/wp-content/uploads/309-338-Rosenberg_Metaphysical_Art_ENG.pdf, p. 329

„It is most important that we should rid art of all that it has contained of ‘recognizable material’ to date, all familiar subject matter, all traditional ideas, all popular symbols must be banished forthwith. More important still, we must hold enormous faith in ourselves; it is essential that the revelation we receive, the conception of an image which embraces a certain thing, which has no sense in itself, which has no subject, which means ‘absolutely nothing’ from the logical point of view.... should speak so strongly in us, evoke such agony or joy, that we feel compelled to paint.“

— Giorgio de Chirico
as quoted in Letters of the great artists – from Ghiberti to Gainsborough, Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, 1963, p . 232

„I remember one vivid winter’s day at Versailles. Silence and calm reigned supreme,. Everything gazed at me with mysterious, questioning eyes. And then I realized that every corner of the palace, every column, every window possessed a spirit, an impenetrable soul. I looked around at the marble heroes, motionless in the lucid air, beneath the frozen rays of that winter sun which pours down on us 'without love', like perfect song.“

— Giorgio de Chirico
as quoted in Letters of the great artists – from Ghiberti to Gainsborough, Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, 1963, p. 232

„Profound statements must be drawn by the artist from the most secret recesses of his being; there no murmuring torrent, no birdsong, no rustle of leaves can distract him.“

— Giorgio de Chirico
as quoted in Letters of the great artists – from Ghiberti to Gainsborough, Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, 1963, p . 232

„You misunderstood my words when I said that Michelangelo was a stupid artist... Because I have drunk from another source and a new and marvelous thirst burns my lips – how can I still believe in such artists?! I know what you are thinking when you ask me: 'isn't David a superman? This is how I used to feel, this is what I used to think. The majority of the world's great spirits thought it so.... but now a new air has entered my soul, a new song has reached my ears and the whole world appears totally changed – the autumn afternoon has arrived, the long shadows, the clear air, the serene sky –, in a word: Zarathustra has arrived, do you understand??.... It is only with Nietzsche that I can say I have begun a real life.“

— Giorgio de Chirico
Quote from De Chirico's letter to Mr. Fritz Gartz, Florence, undated, c. 5 Jan. 1911; from LETTERS BY GIORGIO DE CHIRICO, GEMMA DE CHIRICO AND ALBERTO DE CHIRICO TO FRITZ GARTZ, MILAN-FLORENCE, 1908-1911 http://www.fondazionedechirico.org/wp-content/uploads/559-567Metafisica7_8.pdf, p. 564

„Perhaps the most amazing sensation passed on to us by prehistoric man is that of presentiment. It will always continue. We might consider it as an eternal proof of the irrationality of the universe. Original man must have wandered through a world full of uncanny signs. He must have trembled at each step.“

— Giorgio de Chirico
as quoted in Letters of the great artists – from Ghiberti to Gainsborough, Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, 1963, p. 232

„I exhibited three paintings at the Salon d'Automne exhibition [Paris], which is the most interesting exhibition I have seen until now. Much more interesting than the Secession [in München]. My paintings [two words cancelled] were noticed and praised by the art critics. I think I will be very famous here in a few years time. Reading my name in the newspapers and seeing people notice my paintings and write about them has given me new and strange joy. – Paris is a beautiful city. Why do you remain in the monotony of Munich's heavy atmosphere? Here one can find everything one desires. Everything is refined and has spirit and everyday one learns something new.. The French are more intelligent than I thought. They laugh a lot, but they understand better than the Germans what is refined, strange and outside the ordinary.“

— Giorgio de Chirico
Quote from De Chirico's letter to Mr. Fritz Gartz, Paris, 8 Oct. 1912; from LETTERS BY GIORGIO DE CHIRICO TO FRITZ GARTZ, PARIS, 1912-1914 http://www.fondazionedechirico.org/wp-content/uploads/576-579Metafisica7_8.pdf, p. 576

„Dear Mr. Rosenberg [art-dealer in Paris, then], - Many thanks for your good letters which are a great encouragement to me. I assure you that you are the man who has encouraged me the most so far. Please excuse the tone of declaration. I will also show my gratitude when I am in Paris by doing a good life-size portrait of you, or of a member of your family if you prefer, and I would like you to accept it as a gift. I intend to be in Paris around 15 November. My mother and my brother send their best wishes. - Mr. Rosenberg, please accept my devotion, esteem and gratitude.“

— Giorgio de Chirico
Quote from De Chirico's letter to Mr. Rosenberg, Rome, 13 Oct. 1925; from LETTERS BY GIORGIO DE CHIRICO TO LÉONCE ROSENBERG, 1925-1939 http://www.fondazionedechirico.org/wp-content/uploads/309-338-Rosenberg_Metaphysical_Art_ENG.pdf, p. 317

„Perfect knowledge of the space an object should occupy in a picture, and of the space that separates one object from another, establishes a new astronomy of things attached to our planet by the magic law of gravity. Canons of the Metaphysical aesthetic lie in the minutely-accurate and precisely-estimated use of surfaces and volumes.... We are building in paint a new Metaphysical psychology of things.“

— Giorgio de Chirico
as quoted in Letters of the great artists – from Ghiberti to Gainsborough, Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, 1963, p. 233

„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 regions of childhood vision and dream.“

— Giorgio de Chirico
as quoted in Letters of the great artists – from Ghiberti to Gainsborough, Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, 1963, p . 231