"[… ] An author loved by critics and ignored by the market, but not because the market was not ready to digest these works, but because he did not accept that Faustian compromise that would have made him sell his soul in exchange for something that would be fame, popularity, multiplication, […]. Pinto didn’t want to be rich or famous or powerful.
His work gives the feeling of an essential moral commitment, the work of art cannot be born without a deep reason, without the expression deriving from being under-pressure, from being in this expressive tension, from being a necessity, necessity that is the artist’s reason.
Once the work has been done, he has been so intelligent to find what then its expressions bring to the world, accomplishing its task. The part Pinto gave up is not about him.
He had to express pressure; the rest (be it any great gallerist...) is something that does not concern him, he does not want to waste time dealing with it, is not his thing, is already posthumous to himself."
Vittorio Sgarbi, intervention at the exhibition Bruno Pinto. Dopo il Silenzio, edited by Peter Weiermaier, with contributions of Massimo Cacciari, Valerio Dehò, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna 2003.