..a single uninterrupted and continuous surface from which anything su — Piero Manzoni

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

"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."

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

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

"I sell an idea, an idea in a can."

"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 the reduction of these into the form of images. It is clear that if the artist is to be able to bring to light zones of myth that are authentic and virginal he must have both an extreme degree of self-awareness and the gifts of iron precision and logic."