"...envy." "Your turn, signora." "Take a ball and hit the witch." "Else you'll be damned." "Banish envvy from our gaze." "Recognize her?" "She has eyes like yours." "Too bad for you!" "Signora leaves." "I appeal to the strong sek..." "Come on!" "Don't be afraid." "Kill envy." "5 francs a ball, 20 a basket." "Come on." "Kill envvy once and for all." "Envy" "Basically art today is abstract and figurative." "I'd say it's always been abstract and figurative." "Agreed, but today these terms are truly devisive." "So I want to ask you a precise question." "But you have to have courage to reply truthfully." "You, for eKample, for whom do you paint?" "For me." "Just you?" "He's really only interested in colors." "And you, abstract sculptor, whom do you work for?" "For man." "Oh!" "For what man?" "You've destroyed him!" "For man, even if I don't represent him." "It's useless, Nicola." "You always reply the same=" "We paint for ourselves." "What do you want." "This is why no one looks at you anymore." "If you were still painting for others..." "Listen to the critic!" "You think no one notices us gets mad at us?" "But it's not something to decide in a morning." "But tell me what it means, to paint for others?" "Pop art?" "Why not?" "Art's always been popular." "It's always spoken to everybody." "Since I can't get a word in..., dear signora..., I'm going home." "Giotto was popular art like St. Francis, Caravaggio like Galileo." "Galileo was popular?" "It's not true!" "How so?" "I don't mean "pop" in today's sense." "But back then it had a sequel." "Great sequel!" "The Inquisition!" "Which means it was pop." "Galileo was pop in the star world." "Like St.Francis, like Giotto." "Yes, because he was a man of realíty - which the painter must aways keep his eye on." "You use terms of 200 years ago!" "What're you doing?" "Why didn't you come to dinner tonight?" "Why miaow miaow?" "Here..." "Come!" "Down!" "And you, what hope do you have to convey?" "Dear Franchina, with your pyramids, it's sure hard to hope we'll all have cars tomorrow." "We're back to the Mysterry of the SphinK!" "Now we lack nothing..." "Go on, dear!" "...sphinKes, pyramids, and now the mystery of the desert!" "[Amerícan accent=] Good evening." "Hi!" "Hi, blond." "How's it going?" "Fine, thanks." "What news?" "Have you heard?" "The Museum of Modern Art in New York has decided to eKhibit a jeep." "That's for you, Franchina." "I'd prefer a racing car!" "There's an idea!" "And purer lines, too!" "I understand Franchina." "He wants to reveal the real meaning of initiative=" "which is to eKhibit in an art museum a perfect product of human labor." "Today this is the sole point of understanding between people=" "work." "Okay, but what's work do to with art?" "Work's relevant because art comes from common understanding." "Ancients based art on harmony, artists today on work." "You speak different languages but you sculptors use the same clay." "And you painters the same brushes." "But what time is it?" "2=45!" "What the devil are we doing?" "Good evening!" "Franchina, so long, I'm going." "Tanino, wait, I'll come with you." "Orfeo, I forgot= tomorrow we all meet at noon in Pizza del Popolo, okay?" "We need to organize an eKpo like in Florence." "Don't start now, we'll talk tomorrow." "Okay." "Till noon!" "What were you doing on the roof?" "Betraying me?" "I recall your first seducer!" "Such taste!" "That big black cat without a tail!" "Such a coquette!" "Orfeo, aren't you going to sleep?" "This coquette told me what she was up to on the roof." "Ohh, don't start talking to the cat, you'll never stop." "Don't be like that." "She's extraordinarry, even you have to admit it!" "Did you see?" "She was afraid of the belt." "How stupid!" "Sure, she thought it was a snake." "Cats are all afraid of snakes." "Why?" "she's never seen a snake." "No, but she imagines them, creates them, she's an artist." "Isn't that true, Saba?" "It's an obsession." "Get rid of her!" "Throw her out and close the door." "Look at those eyes!" "A demon, a demon." "Where're you going?" "What're you doing now?" "I can't sleep with those big eyes fi Ked on me." "Why not?" "Don't know." "Modesty." "That's silly." "Sleep." "What time is it?" "10=OO." "Sleep enough?" "Come here." "You're verry pretty this morning, all in tune, like colors." "Not for nothing am I a painter's wife!" "I'm hungrry." "I'll bring breakfast." "Know what day it is?" "Back at work after a long time!" "What a mess!" "They're still sleeping, huh!" "So tell me, how's the little wife?" "What an idea, marrying a French woman!" "Hi, husband." "Oh eKcuse me." "Good morning." "I'm Rosina, the model." "I got the keys from the doorman." "Orfeo told me to come." "I'll get him right away." "A girl's here, says she's the model." "But she's horrible!" "But I still work with her." "She's eKtraordinary, resembles a cat." "It's impossible you like her." "Don't talk stupid." "What do you know about what's ugly and what's beautiful?" "Sorrry, but I have to go out." "Bring me my jacket." "Why?" "You're not working today?" "No, I'm not." "I have to go out and I'm already late." "As usual." "How are you?" "Hi, Rosina, yes, as usual." "Please don't be late for dinner." "I'll be home by 1 p.m." "Orfeo!" "Are you leaving like this?" "Huh?" "Don't you remember?" "Oh, yes!" "Buy her milk, be nice, please." "Bye." "What's he doing?" "!" "As usual, chatting away." "It's already 2=OO." "O God!" "The meat!" "Beast!" "Come here!" "I'd kill you from rage, you..." "What's going on?" "It's late, I know, sorry." "It's not that." "Then what?" "Saba." "She stole the meat." "No, no, it's not possible, she's never stolen anythíng." "You forgot to give her milk this morning, eh?" "I bet you didn't remember." "So, now it's my fault!" "Because I don't count for nothing." "I know!" "For you there's just your pictures, friends, models, and cat!" "I'm almost an outsider!" "Don't be silly!" "You're an egotist." "You never let me enter your life." "I'm an outsider for you." "But you're you, dear." "I love you as you are, understand?" "More than anything, more than work." "You are my rest." "You don't even remember what day this is!" "What day is it?" "My name-day." "My God, how middle-class you are!" "People don't talk of such things anymore!" "Let's eat now." "But what?" "I told you= There's nothing." "Saba ruined everything." "I'd cooked with so much love!" "Saba!" "my love!" "Egotist, glutton, wicked." "Tyrant, queen." "It started it good." "but doesn't work now." "It's too..., looks like a blob." "But it's two hours we're like this!" "Finished soon." "I'm thirsty!" "Camilla!" "Coming!" "It looks easy to reuse brushes." "Rosina, today I want to paint you with earth-red and black." "Basically you're red and black." "But that'd make you too dirty." "I'll show you you, all red and black." "The ideal'd be to paint with just one color, like Van Gogh." "We'll get there." "We're coming, we're coming." "Bring water, please, I'm thirsty." "Camilla, make me coffee." "I'm dead tired, can't do more." "Camilla!" "Bring me coffee." "Have a match?" "Let me see your mouth." "Smile." "No, it was better before." "There's sugar in it." "You've worked a lot today!" "But don't you think that..." "Oh God, let me be, I'm dead tired!" "Rosina, remind me to buy turpentine." "What are you doing?" "Chasing away the boss?" "Camilla, come here, dear." "You still don't understand about cats." "rhe cat cult comes from the East, like light." "The pharoahs adored it like a god= Emu..." "Mau..." "Miao." "The male symbolized liberty." "The female, love." "Maybe, but for me the cat's a traitor." "A traitor?" "Shut up." "Stop now, stop." "It's impossible to work like this!" "You've work in the kitchen, no?" "Get out of here, go there." "Leave me in peace." "No, today it doesn't work." "There's no atmosphere in this house." "How can you work?" "Let's go for a walk." "Look there, there's a sweater." "Look for it.." "Go away!" "Beast!" "Damn beast!" "You've lots of imagination, huh?" "We'll see." "Beast!" "You've lots of imagination." "You understand everything!" "Saba fell off the terrace." "If she's not dead, it's a miracle." "O poor little thing!" "Saba!" "try to walk." "A jump of 30 meters!" "Luckily the 2nd-floor awning arrested the fall." "She bounced like a ball." "The doorman didn't understand and just stood there." "We should call the vet, maybe." "Don't cry." "I'm not!" "I didn't know you cared so much." "Don't worry, nothing happened." "But it's strange, cats are always so prudent." "It's our fault, really." "We do all we can to domesticate them, thus reducing their instinct." "See where she hit?" "Touch..." "Touch here." "See?" "She's scared." "Where did you touch her?" "I didn't." "I don't understand." "Try again." "No, no, she might get mad." "No, no, look how nice she is with me." "But why are her paws wet?" "Know what it mea, ns?" "It means fear cats sweat from fear." "They sweat only from fear." "Stop!" "I understand." "So it was you, wasn't it?" "She broke her nails trrying to grab onto the wall." "You surprised her sleeping." "Or did you beat her first?" "No, there're no marks." "She accused you when I told you to touch her." "And so I saw you for what you are." "You marrry one woman and find another in your arms." "But why?" "What did you think to do, killing her?" "Why did you do it, you wretch?" "Not from jealousy." "If she'd been a woman, yes." "But of a cat, one isn't jealous." "You're envious, that's it." "You can't stand others' virtues." "Me because I paint." "My friends because they're intelligent." "Saba because of her beauty and serenity." "You're envious of everrything and everryone." "From now on I'll always have to guard my back." "Wretch." "Envious." "Envious." "Envious."