All art critics are useless or harmful.

- Umberto Boccioni

There is neither painting, nor sculpture, nor music, nor poetry. The only truth is creation.

- Umberto Boccioni

Art is viable when it finds elements in the surrounding environment. Our ancestors drew their subject matter from the religious attitudes which weigh…

- Umberto Boccioni

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…

- Umberto Boccioni

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…

- Umberto Boccioni

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…

- Umberto Boccioni

These days I am obsessed by sculpture! I believe I have glimpsed a complete renovation of that mummified art.

- Umberto Boccioni

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…

- Umberto Boccioni

A portrait, to be a work of art, neither must nor may resemble the sitter... one must paint its atmosphere.

- Umberto Boccioni