Maurizio Cattelan — "I like to create a sense of wonder, or bewilderment."

"Art is a waste of time. I do it because I have to. I do it to survive. I do it because I don't know how to do anything else."

"So, when you fill a gallery with dirt and someone comes along waving wads of bills, it's difficult not to take them because they become a tangible acknowledgement that what you've been doing actually …"

"I like to make art that's a bit like a dream, something that's not quite real, but feels very real."

"Art has always been between a pandemic and a war. The period we are going through, seen from the historical perspective of art, is just one of the many terrible moments in human history. Art is not lo…"

"If in the course of my career I had found answers, not to tell the truth, I would have stopped working…"