Domenico Gnoli Quotes

Prodigy only feeds on prodigy, fantasy on fantasy.

I couldn't get used to the community and social life of a theatrical set designer.

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 not the fruits.

My life provides me with these images that become expressions of my daily experience.

I love America. I lived here too but my links are exclusively Italian.

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.

I was born knowing that I had to be a painter, because my father, an art historian, always presented painting as the only acceptable thing in life.

The performance on the stage has its reasons in the performance induced in thousands of separate minds and this second performance is no less prodigious than the first.

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 mask in this wardrobe even twice a day.

I never lost the taste and craft of the Renaissance.

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 collectors.

Only thanks to Pop Art, my painting has become understandable.

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.

I know how pathetically inadequate my medium [painting] is, but unfortunately I dispose of no other.

I never tried to stage, to fabricate an image.

My themes are derived from current events, from familiar situations, from daily life, because I never actively intervene against the object, I can feel the magic of its presence.

An audience is perhaps unnecessary to the soul-searching mystic, but it is vital to the magician, the maker of prodigies.

I always use given and simple elements, I don't want to add or subtract anything.

I haven't even ever wanted to distort. I isolate and represent.