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…

— 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…

— Domenico Gnoli

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

— 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…

— Domenico Gnoli

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

— 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…

— Domenico Gnoli

If an artist has the possibility to contact an infinitely larger public through the pages of a publication, he should try to…

— Domenico Gnoli

I don't want to think that I am going to believe that I am a hell of a genius, or anything like…

— Domenico Gnoli

I call prodigy all that is invented, all that begins to exist from the second it is conceived, it is the process…

— Domenico Gnoli

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

— Domenico Gnoli

I never tried to stage, to fabricate an image.

— Domenico Gnoli

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

— Domenico Gnoli

My themes are derived from current events, from familiar situations, from daily life, because I never actively intervene against the object, I…

— Domenico Gnoli

The performance on the stage has its reasons in the performance induced in thousands of separate minds and this second performance is…

— Domenico Gnoli

Life can be considered as a huge wardrobe, with so many dominos hung in its cupboards, one domino per year. Now I…

— Domenico Gnoli

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

— Domenico Gnoli

Prodigy only feeds on prodigy, fantasy on fantasy.

— Domenico Gnoli

I never lost the taste and craft of the Renaissance.

— Domenico Gnoli