Maurizio Cattelan
Maurizio Cattelan

Every morning, we choose between milk or tea or coffee. Usually, I know what I like, but I don't rule out changing my idea sometimes. The editing process is one of the most important parts in everyday life. The same is with my work: mistakes are part of the decision-making process.

Maurizio Cattelan
Maurizio Cattelan

From my point of view, humour and irony include tragedy; they're two sides of the same coin.

Maurizio Cattelan
Maurizio Cattelan

Gianni Agnelli was a sharp mind, and most of his interviews carried meanings between the lines that only now are fully readable.

Maurizio Cattelan
Maurizio Cattelan

Sooner or later, all magazines end up in the toilet.

Maurizio Cattelan
Maurizio Cattelan

Rules are simply obstacles to be jumped, like in a horse race: higher and higher every time.

Maurizio Cattelan
Maurizio Cattelan

It's even more of a torture not to work than to work.

Maurizio Cattelan
Maurizio Cattelan

Some do design in order to try to solve others' problems, while others make art in order to give others his problems.

Maurizio Cattelan
Maurizio Cattelan

If you are searching to figure out what is true and what is not, you will have a sad life. It means you have too much time, and you should do a hobby - like collecting art.

Maurizio Cattelan
Maurizio Cattelan

What's the point of our life? Everything seems absurd until we die, and then it makes sense.

Maurizio Cattelan
Maurizio Cattelan

Warhol was proof that you can be revolutionary without being militant.

Maurizio Cattelan
Maurizio Cattelan

My aim is to be as open and as incomprehensible as possible. There has to be a perfect balance between open and shut.

Maurizio Cattelan
Maurizio Cattelan

Stuffed animals are sad and scary; they have humorous and tragic qualities.

Maurizio Cattelan
Maurizio Cattelan

Made in Catteland is a project that aims to overcome the boundaries of the work of art as we're used to thinking of it: exploring new possibilities of reaching the audience through the creation of new forms of art.

Maurizio Cattelan
Maurizio Cattelan

I was jealous of colleagues when I should have been happy for them. I decided to save my energy. If you think they are great works, you should buy them.

Maurizio Cattelan
Maurizio Cattelan

I work more with my stomach than my brain.

Maurizio Cattelan
Maurizio Cattelan

It's not my job to tell people what a work means.

Maurizio Cattelan
Maurizio Cattelan

I am not an artist.

Maurizio Cattelan
Maurizio Cattelan

Every work of art is a great promise of escape and, therefore, like an open invitation.

Maurizio Cattelan
Maurizio Cattelan

Laughter is a Trojan horse to enter into direct contact with the unconscious, strike the imagination, and trigger visceral reactions.

Maurizio Cattelan
Maurizio Cattelan

The best art is on the street.