Mattarella, art is free, regimes impose state culture - Last hour. "Our Constitution states with effective simplicity that "art and science are free".
Art is freedom. Freedom to create, freedom to think, freedom from conditioning," he says. "It is no coincidence that authoritarian regimes look at artists with suspicion and monitor them with spasmodic attention, spying on them, censoring them, even imprisoning them," he adds. The President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, said this, speaking at the Quirinale on 8 March.