Domenico Gnoli Quotes

I never tried to stage, to fabricate an image.

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

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

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

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.

I can only speak for myself but for me imagination and invention cannot generate something more important, more beautiful and more terrifying than the common object, amplified by the attention that we give it. An object alone, in front of me who is alone, exactly in front of me just as I would like to have in front of me someone who really interests me, in a good light to better observe it.

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 less and go as far in his effort to communicate his inner image as he can.

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 begin changing things for you and they go on and on till you only see your feelings, and that’s why you see this mess.

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.

Prodigy only feeds on prodigy, fantasy on fantasy.