Occupation: Painter Birth: October 19, 1882 Death: August 17, 1916
We must now learn to draw inspiration from the tangible miracles that surround us..
Our bodies penetrate the sofas upon which we sit and the sofas penetrate our bodies. The motorbus rushes into the houses which it passes, and in thei….
A time will come when the eye of man will perceive colors as feelings within itself..
All art critics are useless or harmful..
The time has passed for our sensations in painting to be whispered. We wish them in the future to sing and re-echo upon our canvasses in deafening an….
These days I am obsessed by sculpture! I believe I have glimpsed a complete renovation of that mummified art..
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 synth….
A portrait, to be a work of art, neither must nor may resemble the sitter... one must paint its atmosphere..
To the Young Artists of Italy! The cry of rebellion that we launch, linking our ideals with those of the Futurist poets, does not originate in an aes….
There is neither painting, nor sculpture, nor music, nor poetry. The only truth is creation..
Art is viable when it finds elements in the surrounding environment. Our ancestors drew their subject matter from the religious attitudes which weigh….
It isnecessary to destroy the pretended nobility, entirely literaryand traditional, of marble and bronze? The sculptor can use twenty different mater….
It will be readily admitted that brown tints have never coursed beneath our skin; it will be discovered that yellow shines forth in our flesh, that r….
If we paint the phases of a riot, the crowd bustling with uplifted fists and the noisy onslaughts of cavalry are translated upon the canvas in sheave….
To paint a human figure you must not paint it; you must render the whole of its surrounding atmosphere..
In the first manifesto that we launched on the 8th of March, 1910, from the stage of the Chiarella Theater in Turin,1 we expressed our deep-rooted di….
Your eyes, accustomed to semi-darkness, will soon open to more radiant visions of light. The shadows which we shall paint shall be more luminous than….