I should like all artists to sell their fingerprints, or else stage competitions to see who can draw the longest line or sell their shit in tins. The fingerprint is the only sign of the personality that can be accepted: if collectors want something intimate, really personal to the artist, there's the artist's own shit, that is really his.


In Manzoni's letter to the artist Ben Vautier, December 1961 (reprinted in 'Battino and Palazzoli', p. 144); as quoted by Sophie Howarth of Tate, in Piero Manzoni 'Artist's Shit' 1961 - Summary, November 2000

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I should like all artists to sell their fingerprints, or else stage competitions to see who can draw the longest line or sell their shit in tins. The ...

I should like all artists to sell their fingerprints, or else stage competitions to see who can draw the longest line or sell their shit in tins. The ...

I should like all artists to sell their fingerprints, or else stage competitions to see who can draw the longest line or sell their shit in tins. The ...

I should like all artists to sell their fingerprints, or else stage competitions to see who can draw the longest line or sell their shit in tins. The ...