Piero Manzoni

"I would like to draw a white line covering the complete Greenwich meridian."

"You are the 'monochrome bleu' and I am the 'monochrome blanc'; we should start to cooperate together, we two."

"I should like all artists to sell their fingerprints, or else stage competitions to see who can draw the longest line or sell their shit in tins. The fingerprint is the only sign of the personality th…"

"The key point today is to establish the universal validity of individual mythology.. .The artistic moment is therefore that in which the discovery of pre-conscious universal myths comes about, and in …"

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"Tate: Summary of Piero Manzoni 'Artist's Shit' 1961"

"The work of art has its origin in an unconscious impulse that springs from collective substrata of universal values common to all men, from which all men draw their gestures, and from which the artist…"

"So it is obvious that at first glance there would seem to be a paradox: the more we immerse ourselves in ourselves, the more open we become, since the closer we get to the germ of our totality the clo…"