Apprentice is the beginner - the first years you work in a craft in the European sense you are an apprentice. That takes 3 or 4 years. Then you are a journeyman. You can go from one master to another and learn other tricks and other secrets.

My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the theatre and all such nonsense, you know.

And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my father who was a house painter and decorative painter. He made stage sets, he made glass paintings, he made everything.

I'm not a talker. I'm a formulator.

I love very much to draw animals.

In Italy the artist is a god. Now if the artist is a god, the scientist is likewise a god.

Independent of harmony rules, any color 'goes' or 'works' with any other color, presupposing that their quantities are appropriate.