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Mario Schifano Quotes

1934–1998 Italy

Mario Schifano (20 September 1934 – 26 January 1998) was an Italian painter, filmmaker and major figure in the Pop Art movement.

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I always hope to make paintings without useless desire for explanations.

The ideas are contemporary to the gesture, I immediately spit them on the painting.

I live in the present and in the future [...] I don't accept the blackmail of the past.

Painting is my way of existing.

I do not accept the blackmail of the past.

As long as I'm alive I'm rich.

I want to paint the painting.

Painting is human, too human.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Mario Schifano (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.