Umberto Boccioni

We will sing of the love of danger, the habit of energy and rashness. We will sing of the automobile, whose hood is adorned with great pipes, like serpents of breath, . . . and the gliding flight of aeroplanes whose propeller, like a flag, sings in the wind.

We declare that the splendor of the world has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed.

We will glorify war—the world’s only hygiene—militarism, patriotism, the destructive gesture of freedom-bringers, beautiful ideas worth dying for, and scorn for woman.

All forms of imitation must be scorned, and all forms of originality glorified.

The critic is useless or harmful.

All subjects previously used must be swept aside in order to express our whirling life of steel, of pride, of fever and of speed.

The complementary innate dynamism (the law of dynamic continuity) is the only thing that can give the plastic arts their true significance.

We affirm that the world's magnificence has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed.

The gesture which we would reproduce on canvas shall no longer be a fixed moment in universal dynamism. It shall simply be the dynamic sensation itself.

The spectator must be placed in the center of the picture.

We will destroy the museums, libraries, academies of every kind, will fight moralism, feminism, every opportunistic or utilitarian cowardice.

Art, in fact, can be nothing but violence, cruelty, and injustice.

The straight line is the only line that can give us the true sensation of speed.

We must break out of the circle of tradition and create a new art, an art that is in harmony with our modern life.

The nude in painting is as nauseous and as tedious as historical painting.

We want to re-enter life, to live it fully, to create a new art that is in harmony with our modern life.

The universal dynamism must be rendered in painting as a plastic sensation.

The simultaneousness of the environment is the only thing that can give us the true sensation of life.

We must paint the invisible, the impalpable, the inaudible, the inexpressible.

The human figure must be rendered as a synthesis of all its movements.