Umberto Boccioni

We want to liberate painting from the tyranny of the past.

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

We want to glorify the new, the original, the revolutionary.

We will sing the multicolored polyphonic tides of revolution in the modern metropolis.

The sixteen people around you in a rolling motor bus are in turn and at the same time one, ten, a hundred, a thousand persons.

It is not a question of painting life under the form of a sequence of gestures artificially detached from one another, but of painting it as it is, in its universal dynamism.

We want to fight mental, moral and physical lethargy.

The gesture which we have executed, freed from all the obstacles and obstacles of the weight, will reappear before us, full, swarming with thousands of intuitions, thousands of sensations.

Plastic dynamism is the synthesis of the integral plastic values of the object and its atmosphere.

We are not anymore the expression of a state of mind, but the state of mind itself.

The art of the future will be dynamic, not static.

Sculpture must cease to be a static art to become a dynamic one.

We Futurists proclaim that the environment invades the spirit.

The time has come to free ourselves from the past and embrace the machine age.

In the clamor of the crowd we have heard the roar of the motor.

Art must be violent, aggressive, and revolutionary.

The human figure is no longer the principal subject; it is the lines of force that matter.

We must destroy the cult of the past.

Painting is the synthesis of the world.

The futurist painter tries to paint states of mind which are translated into visible plastic values.