I also believe there is nothing more surreal and nothing more abstract than reality. - Giorgio Morandi

I am now working on a still life with a bottle and other objects spread out on a plane and it seems to be turning out well.

He [ Jackson Pollock ] just jumps in before he knows how to swim. [when Morandi sees paintings of Pollock for the first time]

I suppose I remain.. ..a believer in Art for Art's sake rather than in Art for the sake of religion, of social justice or of national glory. Nothing is more alien to me than an art which sets out to serve other purposes than those implied in the work of art in itself..