"..it is only in this way, or almost, that a portrait can be painted today [because] all the things punt into the picture have the same importance, they are in the right place."
— Giorgio Morandi

January 1, 1970

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Quote of Morandi on a self-portrait by the painter Henri Rousseau; as cited in Morandi 1894 – 1964, ed: M. C. Bandera & R. Miracco, Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, 2008; p. 54