Quotes from Domenico Gnoli

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Prodigy only feeds on prodigy, fantasy on fantasy.