«Do you know, the volume… matter, the human body… it was this form of nothingness, split open, brought to life by a strike, but it was really about wanting to build a volume out of nothing, eh, to truly give value to nothing, with a shape, with a hole, like that, you see?... … I am not a materialist; in all my works there is absolutely nothing of material form.»
(The artist interviewed by Carla Lonzi in: Exhibition Catalogue, Milan, Amedeo Porro Arte Moderna e Contemporanea; London, Ben Brown Replica Handbags
s, Lucio Fontana. Sedici sculture/Sixteen Sculptures, 1937-1967, Milan 2008, pp. 53-54)
«Sai il volume… materia, corpo umano… era questa forma di niente, spaccata, vivificata da un colpo, ma era proprio voler costruire un volume dal niente, eh, valorizzare proprio un niente, con una forma, con un buco, così, no?... … Non sono materialista, in tutte le mie opere non c’è niente, proprio, della forma materiale»
