“We declare that the splendor of the world has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed. A racing automobile with its bonnet adorned with great tubes like serpents with explosive breath...a roaring motor car which seems to run on machine-gun fire, is more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace.””
Quotes by F. T. Marinetti
“We must shake the gates of life to test the hinges and the locks.””
“after having, for instance, reproduced in a picture the right shoulder or the right ear of a figure, we deem it totally vain and useless to reproduce the left shoulder or the left ear. We do not draw sounds, but their vibrating invervals. We do not paint diseases, but their symtoms and their consequences.””
F. T. MarinettiFilippo Tommaso Emilio Marinetti was an influential Italian poet, editor, and art theorist, best known as the founder of the Futurist movement. His early involvement with the Abbaye de Créteil communi...