Futurism
Futurism is an intellectual or artistic movement that has shaped the ideas of many notable thinkers throughout history.
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"I found in your book the confirmation of my ultimate conclusions and the tools for deepening this aspect of the artistic problem."
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🇷🇺Boris Pasternak
Literature
Futurism
1890–1960
"I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them."
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Umberto Boccioni
Art
Futurism
1882–1916
"While the impressionists make a table to give one particular moment and subordinate the life of the table to its resemblance to this moment, we synthesize every moment and thus build the table."
40 quotes
Giorgio Morandi
Art
Futurism
1890–1964
"..before I die I should like to bring two paintings to completion. What matters is to touch the limit, the essence of things."
27 quotes
🇺🇸Joseph Stella
Art
Futurism
1877–1946
"At my arrival , Fauvism. Cubism, and Futurism were in full swing. There was in the air the glamour of a battle, the holy battle raging for the assertion of a new truth. My youth plunged full in it."
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Gino Severini
Art
Futurism
1883–1966
"I found in your book the confirmation of my ultimate conclusions and the tools for deepening this aspect of the artistic problem."
32 quotes
🇮🇹Carlo Carrà
Literature
Futurism
1881–1966
"We insist that our concept of perspective is the total antitheses of all static perspective. It is dynamic and chaotic in application, producing in the mind of the observer a veritable mass of plastic emotions."
15 quotes
🇮🇹Giacomo Balla
Art
Futurism
1871–1958
"Futurism, as it has developed over six years, has solidified and surpassed Impressionism, has proposed plastic dynamism, atmospheric modeling, and the interpenetration of planes and states of mind."
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🇮🇹Luigi Russolo
Art
Futurism
1885–1947
"In antiquity, life was nothing but silence. Noise was really not born before the 19th century, with the advent of machinery. Today noise reigns supreme over human sensibility."
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Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Literature
Futurism
1876–1944
"MP3 of Marinetti performing one of his poems: 'La Battaglia di Adrianopoli' recorded by Marinetti"
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Notable Quotes
"..displacement of bodies in atmosphere two persons form but one plastic unity, rhythmically balanced."
— Gino Severini, b. 1883View →
"I would like my colors to be diamonds and to be able to make abundant use of them in my pictures so as to make them gleam with light and richness."
— Gino Severini, b. 1883View →
".. generous display of scantily clad beauties and a carnavalesque inventiveness.. .. beautifully masked and under-dressed women, with showers of confetti, multicolored streamers. The atmosphere was one of frenzy.."
— Gino Severini, b. 1883View →
"Philosophers and aestheticians may offer elegant and profound definitions of art and beauty, but for the painter they are all summed up in this phrase: To create a harmony"
— Gino Severini, b. 1883View →
"..primitive who is thrilled by the movement of a dancer and boulevard filled with people."
— Gino Severini, b. 1883View →