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.

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

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

I never tried to stage, to fabricate an image.

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.

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.