Piero Manzoni: Value

Piero Manzoni was Italian artist. Explore interesting quotes on value.
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“The foundations of the universal value of art are given to us now by psychology. This is the common base that enables us to sink its roots to the origins before man and to discover the primary myths of humanity. The artist must confront these myths and reduce them, by means of amorphous and confused materials, to clear images. Since these are atavistic forces that have their origins in the subconscious, the work of art takes on a magical significance.”

Piero Manzoni

Source: For the Discovery of a Zone of Images', Piero Manzoni, 1957, pp. 16-17

Art , Universe

“To arrive at such a discovery, fruit of a log and precious education, involves a whole field of precise technique. The artist must immerse himself in his own anxiety, dredging up everything that is alien, imposed or personal in the derogatory sense, in order to arrive at the authentic zone of values.”

Piero Manzoni

Source: For the Discovery of a Zone of Images', Piero Manzoni, 1957, pp. 18-19

Education , Sense , Personality

“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 derives the 'archaic' of organic existence. Every man of his own accord extracts the human element from this base, without realizing it, and in an elementary and immediate way.”

Piero Manzoni

Source: For the Discovery of a Zone of Images', Piero Manzoni, 1957, pp. 16-17

Men , Art , Way , Spring

“Abstractions and references must be totally avoided. In our freedom of invention we must succeed in constructing a world that can be measured only in its own terms. We absolutely cannot consider the picture as a space onto which to project our mental scenography. It is the area of freedom in which we search for the discovery of our first images. Images which are absolute as possible, which cannot be valued for that which they record, explain and express, but only for that which they are to be.”

Piero Manzoni

Source: For the Discovery of a Zone of Images', Piero Manzoni, 1957, pp. 18-19

World , Search , Freedom

“Where the artist is concerned it is a question of the conscious immersion in himself, through which, once he has got beyond the individual and contingent level, he can probe deep down to reach the living germs of total humanity. Everything that is humanly communicable is derived from this, and it is through the discovery of the psychic substrata that all men have in common that the relationship of author-work-spectator is made possible. In this way the work of art has the totemic value of living myth, without symbolic or descriptive dispersion: it is a primary and direct expression.”

Piero Manzoni

Source: For the Discovery of a Zone of Images', Piero Manzoni, 1957, pp. 16-17

Men , Art , Way , Question