Quotes

"Annigoni will remain in the history of art as the dissenter in a dark age for painting."

Benard Berenson
Art Historian

"Annigoni is a painter capable of master unique in the world - one of the few artist worth respecting."

Giorgio de Chirico
Painter

"In previous centuries people went to Gainsborough to be made into 'a Gainsborough, Rembrandt to be made into 'a Rembrandt.' In this century, people came to Annigoni - to be translated into 'an Annigoni' - to be made into a work of art."

John Michael Angel
Painter

"We ate and drank and had fun by firing shots out the train window with antique guns. A sort of basic cannon that Annigoni always carried with him - it made incredible blows. It's a pity it wouldn't be possible to do today."

Romano Stefanelli
Painter

"The Maestro had a particularly introspective character. At times he could be humorous, happy, but deep inside there was depression which you can see in his works."

Silvestro Pistolesi
Painter

"He was the most cynical and pessimistic man I've ever met, In his portraits you get a sense that these people, these beautiful people, are sinking into a darking world - a tremendous nostalgia for an enormously rich culture that is passing away from the world."

John Michael Angel
Painter

"Pietro Annigoni is a philosopher as well as a painter. We justly venerate the writtten opinions of a Leonardo da Vince, a Benvenuto Cellini or o Joshua Reynolds, in the same way, and relative to the present age, the views of Annigoni on painting are of the first importance."

Charles Richard Cammell
Writer

"Annigoni, beyound being a painter, writer or sculptor, more than anything he was an intellectual and a man of exceptional culture, a rare thing I would say, even more so today."

Benedetto Annigoni