Occupation: Poet Birth: December 22, 1876 Death: December 2, 1944
Art, in fact, can be nothing but violence, cruelty and injustice..
There is no longer beauty except in the struggle. No more masterpieces without an aggressive character. Poetry must be a violent assault against the ….
Let us leave good sense behind like a hideous husk and let us hurl ourselves, like fruit spiced with pride, into the immense mouth and breast of the ….
A Race car is more beautiful than the Victory of Samotracia.
A new beauty has been added to the splendor of the world - the beauty of speed..
We want to sing the love of danger, the habit of energy and rashness..
Spaghetti is no food for fighters..
I feel the matter of my heart being transformed, metallized, in an optimism of steel..
We love the indomitable bellicose patriotism that sets you apart; we love the national pride that guides your muscularly courageous race; we love the….
It is therefore necessary to prepare the imminent and inevitable identification of man with the motor, facilitating and perfecting an incessant excha….
When will you disembarrass yourselves of the lymphatic ideology of that deplorable Ruskin, which I would like to cover with so much ridicule that you….
In order to win over Paris and appear, in the eyes of all Europe, an absolute innovator, the most advanced of all, I urge you to get to work with all….
Destroy the Museums. Crack syntax. Sabotage the adjective. Leave nothing but the verb..
O my brother Futurists ! All of you, look at yourselves! In the name of that Human Pride we so adore, I proclaim that the hour is nigh when men with ….
It is from Italy that we launch through the world this violently upsetting incendiary manifesto of ours. With it, today, we establish Futurism, becau….
We had stayed up all night, my friends and I, under hanging mosque lamps with domes of filigreed brass, domes starred like our spirits, shining like ….
We say that the world's magnificence has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed. Time and Space died yesterday. We already live in the ab….
War is the highest form of modern art..
Idealists, workers of thought, unite to show how inspiration and genius walk in step with the progress of the machine, of aircraft, of industry, of t….
We will glorify war-the world's only hygiene, milliterism, patriotism , the destructive gesture of freedom-bringers, beautiful ideas worth dying for,….
The past is necessarily inferior to the future. That is how we wish it to be. How could we acknowledge any merit in our most dangerous enemy: the pas….