What is the thing I love most about my job?

What I love most about my job as an established artist is the challenge with myself, the opportunity to always have to deepen many aspects of study and knowledge of many subjects. I love to see pictorial and literary works come out of my mind and hands, which are authentic visceral parts of my elective research as a human being who does not want to stop at being just this.

What is my idea of ​​happiness?

I think happiness is a fleeting good made up of very short times, sometimes moments of our earthly life. Sometimes I feel that it is made up of beautiful memories that you would never want to forget, it is made up of people that you would like to keep in your life forever. I think it is often made up of moments of a special inner lightness experienced with oneself when you least expect it, sometimes for no apparent reason, other times looking at a landscape or a horizon or the distant flight of a seagull or a child who seems to want to tell you of his own happiness in discovering life.

What is my greatest fear?

My fears, as I think for any person, are many, but my greatest fear for me I think is that of reaching the end of my earthly journey feeling that I have not behaved with dignity, that I have wasted my most important opportunities, that I have not loved enough or that I have not done all the good that I could have done.

What is the characteristic that I deplore about myself?

Sometimes I hate a little my exasperating restlessness that perhaps leads me to almost never be fully satisfied with what life and my abilities offer me. I hate a little perhaps my wanting too much from those who still cannot stay on my strings, or wanting at all costs that the world realizes its mistakes that are sometimes horrors. I also hate a little that exasperated intolerance that almost leads me to violate myself internally if the work I am working on or the literary work I am dedicating myself to does not fully satisfy me. But perhaps this is one of the secrets of life to always be able to do better what you have chosen to do. And in any case, the strong emotional tension of the will cannot ignore a profound creative result of an artist.

Which living people in my sector do I admire the most?

I love strong artists with a mystical temperament with a very personal and authentic imprint, those who open new creative and communicative paths. These artists can very well belong to both past and contemporary art, I love great intellectuals who are sometimes even little known. The names are many but above all the artists of mysticism and poetics, of mystery, of symbolism, of the intriguing sense of the enigma. I love the narrators of balance and beauty, the artists who reach universal harmony through tortuous roads because they are the result of a journey of personal research. I love expressionists, impressionists, figurative artists as well as abstract artists when they arrive at an unrepeatable and captivating synthesis.

What is the thing I like least about my job?

The thing I like least about my work as an artist is fearing that people of intellectual or artistic importance would judge what I have achieved to be of little fruit. Just as it is unpleasant from time to time to continually put yourself at the disposal of increasingly severe evaluations and often to understand that someone is criticizing you in a way that is not positive for which you have chosen to spend yourself.

When and where have I been happiest, in my work?

I have not been happy often, but I have certainly been happy with my important achievements. I think the place matters less. I have been happy to have performed with my art in places of institutional and international importance such as the Louvre in Paris, the Meam in Barcelona, ​​the Gaudí Palace, many large theaters, New York, the Principality of Monaco where I will be awarded my second Oscar. I have been happy wherever I have felt, even if not always in physical presence, to have overcome another difficult and hopefully deserved milestone in my career.

If I could, what would I change about myself?

I would change my particular physicality because of a difficulty that has marked my path and the fact that it has forced me to live a series of gratuitous meannesses, a hardness of life that becomes tiring. Ignorance regarding physical diversity is still too marked and still causes too many difficulties in social progress. Too often people still fail to consider the inner and therefore intrinsic talents of a person. And at the same time I deplore myself for still paying attention to it, for still weighing this problem as if it were mine, and therefore perhaps for not yet being completely in control of myself. So I hate that I have not yet reached that more complete self-esteem that perhaps I also owe myself if I have worked so hard for my path and my recovery by reaching real goals.

What is my greatest success at work?

I have had many successes at work, but as often happens I always hope that what I am achieving or what I will achieve will be even greater and therefore will represent the most important. The greatest success, however, remains that of having given depth to a life that is not as easy as mine through this work.

Where would I like to live more?

I would like to live in an important metropolis of Western origin where I can find many creative and cultural stimuli, where I can get to know a multiplicity of intellects, in short, much more of the world and the people with its facets and therefore a variety of emotional perspectives to be able to compare myself and possibly evolve almost continuously. Or I would like to live in a historic city full of suggestions and fascinating settings and architecture belonging to different eras that would play their multifaceted role in my imagination or in my curiosity about the historical evolution of art. Or even in a noble city and feel the charm of an uncommon elegance. Or in a completely natural place, almost wild, to know it in all its strength and mystery, in all its infinite beauty. I would have many experiences savoring different existences linked to very different places and I would live many lives to understand things infinitely.

What is my most precious asset?

I believe my most precious asset is faith in God to which I try to give priority in my life and in my daily gestures and in many of my choices. I think that faith in God gives us the world to live in honesty, even intellectual, multiplying and multiplying our talents even when we don’t realize it, continually opening up new impulses to grow internally. My most precious asset is to continuously strive to believe in something in which nothing ends, especially love in the broad sense, the love that is given and that which is received, that which every man already experiences in this existence. Another precious asset of mine is the intellect, which I think is the greatest faculty granted to the human being and which has led me very far, surpassing myself many times and winning many challenges.

What is my most distinctive characteristic?

I believe my most distinctive characteristic is intelligence and the tenacity in believing in it, in believing that it is much more than an instrument, a sophisticated complex of numerous possibilities of the mind and heart and human feelings to know oneself and one’s journey in this life. It offers us the way to be aware of our spontaneous and dutiful tendency, together with all forms of life, towards increasingly higher and more complex, interesting and evolved goals of existence. I think this is wonderful despite the drama of many aspects of life.

What is the place in my city that inspires me the most?

The city where I live is a small anonymous province in southern Italy so apart from the remarkable natural landscapes it does not offer much in terms of architecture or particular cultural or artistic encounters or initiatives. I have always looked for my inspirations in other areas which are above all of an intimate or metaphysical nature.

What is my favorite place to eat and drink in my city?

I don’t frequent the social scene very much so I usually have lunch at home, in the place where I live and take care of myself.

What books have influenced my life and in what way?

They are moral or current novels that touch on serious topics, ancient wisdom books where you can draw deeper, almost alchemical truths or art catalogues or books on ancient history or ancient and modern art. You only die once. 

What music would I listen to on my last day?

I would listen to transcendent music, nostalgic or strong music such as that of Mozart, Batiatus or Choen.

Who is my hero or heroine in fiction?

One of the heroes I happen to think of is Peter Pan: a simple but complex hero, an adult but still a child hero who came out almost from nature itself to save man with his morals and nature itself. Captain Hook because he passes through almost a multitude of different and fantastic worlds, the Knights of the Round Table or the historical heroes. And the mythical liberator of the sword in the stone: King Arthur. Or Sir Lancelot or D’Artagnan.

Who are my heroes and heroines in real life?

My real life hero is Jesus Christ. I think he is the greatest hero of all time and the greatest man who has ever walked the earth from any angle you want to see him.

Which film would I recommend seeing at least once in your life?

There are many films that I consider important, it is a completely personal opinion to choose the cinematography of your life. Every important film production plays an important role in humanity and leaves a moral, a complete story not to be forgotten. It remains essential to follow this art if you want to better understand life and human feelings, but I can’t talk about just one film.

What do the words “You are the narrator of your life” mean to me?

Maybe I would say “yes” that the true narrators of our lives are ourselves. No one better than us can tell their own life because he himself has lived it in the secrets, choices and most hidden facets. Maybe he will not be really good at telling it because every life contains an inexhaustible complexity but he has lived it in its uniqueness and knows it consciously or unconsciously more than anyone else.

Where can you see me or my work?

You can search for me on Google: ANNA TERESA LAURITA

What do the words “Passion never retreats” mean to me?

Passion is one of the greatest mysteries of ourselves. Man and life draw meaning from it. Life itself is passion for life, then there are personal passions big or small that they may be but many times they even survive beyond the imagination itself.