Inadequate Quote by Domenico Gnoli

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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…

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

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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…

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

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

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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…

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

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The state is in danger of falling into disrepute due to the evidence of its inadequate resources.

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It would have been easier to fight alone with inadequate forces than to have to accept...responsibility for our ally's lack of fighting qualities and…

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I was haunted always by my other life-my drab room in the Bronx, my square foot of the subway, my fixation upon the day's letter from Alabama-would it come and what would it say?-my shabby suits, my poverty, and love. While my friends were launching decently into life I had muscled my inadequate bark into midstream... I was a failure-mediocre…

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