Theory Quotes by Domenico Gnoli

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

— Domenico Gnoli

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

— Domenico Gnoli

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

— Domenico Gnoli

I am metaphysical inasmuch as I am looking for a non-eloquent painting, immobile and of atmosphere, which feeds on static situations.

— Domenico Gnoli

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

— Domenico Gnoli

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…

— Domenico Gnoli

You begin looking at things and they look just fine, as normal as ever, but then you look for a while longer and your…

— Domenico Gnoli

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

— Domenico Gnoli

I can only speak for myself but for me imagination and invention cannot generate something more important, more beautiful and more terrifying than the…

— Domenico Gnoli

All I know is that mine was a completely new theory about art, a new approach that made the pictures appear just like life…

— Domenico Gnoli

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

— Domenico Gnoli

There isn't much to say about my childhood. I remember explosions of intense happiness, followed shortly afterwards by profound melancholy that always prompted remarks…

— Domenico Gnoli