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

I never lost the taste and craft of the Renaissance.

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

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

I call prodigy all that is invented, all that begins to exist from the second it is conceived, it is the process not the results, the principle and not the fruits.

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.

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.