Art is freedom, but it must also be good.

Nivola repeated several times that his goal, especially for the production of public work, was to convey joy and good feelings. He felt therefore a duty and a responsibility towards his contemporaries; he listened to a daimonon that suggested both limitations and opened horizons of meaning to him. Beauty and Goodness must not be separated. Standing in front of his work for a little longer, one can trace a pattern of visual philosophy, not even that hidden, a universe of fundamentals and ideas offered as framework of recovery toward a new humanity, a dispensary of principles against the malady of prejudice, individualism, technology, consumerism and nihilistic relativism, all children of Capitalism.