Occupation: Painter Birth: May 3, 1933 Death: April 17, 1970
I love America. I lived here too but my links are exclusively Italian..
I never tried to stage, to fabricate an image..
I couldn't get used to the community and social life of a theatrical set designer..
You begin looking at things and they look just fine, as normal as ever, but then you look for a while longer and your feelings get involved and they ….
I can only speak for myself but for me imagination and invention cannot generate something more important, more beautiful and more terrifying than th….
The performance on the stage has its reasons in the performance induced in thousands of separate minds and this second performance is no less prodigi….
My life provides me with these images that become expressions of my daily experience..
I am metaphysical inasmuch as I am looking for a non-eloquent painting, immobile and of atmosphere, which feeds on static situations..
I don't want to think that I am going to believe that I am a hell of a genius, or anything like that..
If an artist has the possibility to contact an infinitely larger public through the pages of a publication, he should try to invest more rather than ….
I haven't even ever wanted to distort. I isolate and represent..
I always use given and simple elements, I don't want to add or subtract anything..
I call prodigy all that is invented, all that begins to exist from the second it is conceived, it is the process not the results, the principle and n….
Life can be considered as a huge wardrobe, with so many dominos hung in its cupboards, one domino per year. Now I don't see why I couldn't change my ….
My themes are derived from current events, from familiar situations, from daily life, because I never actively intervene against the object, I can fe….
An audience is perhaps unnecessary to the soul-searching mystic, but it is vital to the magician, the maker of prodigies..
For many years it was difficult for me to paint because I didn't feel the informal painting that was then tyrannically dominating painters and art co….
All I know is that mine was a completely new theory about art, a new approach that made the pictures appear just like life does..
Prodigy only feeds on prodigy, fantasy on fantasy..
I know how pathetically inadequate my medium [painting] is, but unfortunately I dispose of no other..
I never lost the taste and craft of the Renaissance..