Marino Marini

"But I am no longer trying to formulate a stylised version of anxiety such as we find in the Laocoon group and in so many other sculptures of the Silver Age of antiquity. I feel that these works are al…"

"Until the end of the fascist era and of the war , I continued to hark back to the sober realism of the artists of the Etruscan funerary figures, or the sculptors of some Roman portraits, especially th…"

"My 'Pomone' live in a bright world, with their sunny disposition, full of humanity, of abundance, and of great sensuality. they represent a happy season that breaks the tragic time of war. in all thes…"

"I am no longer seeking, in my own equestrian figures, to celebrate the triumph of any victorious hero. On the contrary, I seek to commemorate in them something tragic – in fact, a kind of 'Twilight of…"

"There is an intimate relationship between my pictorial and my sculptural work. I would never begin on a sculpture without first gaining an idea of the colour.. .My mind is captivated by this task unti…"

"I had been born in an Earthly Paradise from which we all have expelled. Not so long ago a sculptor could still be content with a search for full, sensual and vigorous forms. But in the past fifteen ye…"

"Equestrian statues have always served, through the centuries, a kind of epic purpose. They set out to exalt a triumphant hero, a conqueror like Marcus Aurelius.. .In the past fifty years, this ancient…"

"My equestrian figures are symbols of the anguish that I feel when I survey contemporary events. Little by little, my horses become more restless; their riders less and less able to control them. Man a…"