Skip to content

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 that can be accepted: if collectors want something intimate, really personal to the artist, there's the artist's own shit, that is really his.

— Piero Manzoni

Another quote →

More quotes by Piero Manzoni

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

I sell an idea, an idea in a can.

You [=Yves Klein ] are the 'monochrome bleu' and I am the 'monochrome blanc'; we should start to cooperate together, we two. [Manzoni's remark, during their first meeting]

When I blow up a balloon, I am breathing my soul into an object that becomes eternal. [Manzoni's quote of 1960, referring to his art-work 'Artist's Breath']

..a single uninterrupted and continuous surface from which anything superfluous and all interpretative possibilities are excluded. [referring to his 'Achromes', Manzoni started to make in 1957]

All Piero Manzoni quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Piero Manzoni (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.