Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Quotes

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

  Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

  Art, Violence, Facts

  Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (2016). “The Manifesto of Futurism”, p.9, Passerino Editore

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• Destroy the Museums. Crack syntax. Sabotage the adjective. Leave nothing but the verb.

  Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

  Museums, Cracks, Adjectives

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• We say that the world's magnificence has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed. Time and Space died yesterday. We already live in the absolute, because we have created eternal, omnipresent speed.

  Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

  Yesterday, Space, World

  Article in 'Le Figaro' on February 20, 1909. "Futurist Manifestos". Book edited by Umbro Appolonio, www.unknown.nu. 1973.

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• War is the highest form of modern art.

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  Art, War, Modern

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• We will glorify war-the world's only hygiene, milliterism, patriotism , the destructive gesture of freedom-bringers, beautiful ideas worth dying for, and scorn for woman

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  Beautiful, War, Hygiene

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• There is no longer beauty except in the struggle. No more masterpieces without an aggressive character. Poetry must be a violent assault against the unknown forces in order to overcome them and prostrate them before men.

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  Struggle, Character, Men

  "Futurism: An Anthology" edited by Laura Wittman, Christine Poggi, Yale University Press, (p. 52), 2009.

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• A new beauty has been added to the splendor of the world - the beauty of speed.

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  World, Splendor, Speed

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• The past is necessarily inferior to the future. That is how we wish it to be. How could we acknowledge any merit in our most dangerous enemy: the past, gloomy prevaricator, execrable tutor?

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  Past, Enemy, Wish

  "The Archaeologist's Book of Quotations". Book by K Kris Hirst, 2016.

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• We want to sing the love of danger, the habit of energy and rashness.

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  Energy, Want, Habit

  Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, “Futuristic Manifesto”

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• Spaghetti is no food for fighters.

  Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

  Fighter, Spaghetti

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• Idealists, workers of thought, unite to show how inspiration and genius walk in step with the progress of the machine, of aircraft, of industry, of trade, of the sciences, of electricity.

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  Inspiration, Progress, Genius

  "Futurism". Book edited by Didier Ottinger, p. 78, 2008.

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• I feel the matter of my heart being transformed, metallized, in an optimism of steel.

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  Heart, Optimism, Steel

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• A Race car is more beautiful than the Victory of Samotracia

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  Beautiful, Race, Car

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• When will you disembarrass yourselves of the lymphatic ideology of that deplorable Ruskin, which I would like to cover with so much ridicule that you would never forget it? With his morbid dream of primitive and rustic life, with his nostalgia for Homeric cheeses and legendary wool-spinners, with his hatred for the machine, steam power, and electricity, that maniac of antique simplicity is like a man who, after having reached full physical maturity, still wants to sleep in his cradle and feed himself at the breast of his decrepit old nurse in order to recover his thoughtless infancy.

  Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

  Dream, Sleep, Men

  "Modernism and Its Margins: Reinscribing Cultural Modernity from Spain and Latin America" by Anthony L. Geist, Jose B. Monle-N, Taylor & Francis, (p. 57), 1999.

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• War, the World's Only Hygiene

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  Art, War, Hygiene

  Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1998). “Mafarka the Futurist: An African Novel”

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• It is from Italy that we launch through the world this violently upsetting incendiary manifesto of ours. With it, today, we establish Futurism, because we want to free this land from its smelly gangrene of professors, archaeologists, ciceroni and antiquarians.

  Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

  Cancer, Burning, World

  "The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism" by F. T. Marinetti. Le Figaro, www.italianfuturism.org. February 20, 1909.

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• O my brother Futurists ! All of you, look at yourselves! In the name of that Human Pride we so adore, I proclaim that the hour is nigh when men with broad temples and steel chins will give birth magnificently, with a single trust of their bulging will, to giants with flawless gestures.

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  Brother, Pride, Men

  "Mafarka il Futurista". Book by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. Preface, 1909.

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• Let us leave good sense behind like a hideous husk and let us hurl ourselves, like fruit spiced with pride, into the immense mouth and breast of the world! Let us feed the unknown, not from despair, but simply to enrich the unfathomable reservoirs of the Absurd!

  Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

  Pride, Despair, World

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• In order to win over Paris and appear, in the eyes of all Europe, an absolute innovator, the most advanced of all, I urge you to get to work with all your heart, resolute on being bolder, crazier, more advanced, surprising, eccentric, incomprehensible, and grotesque than anybody else in music. I urge you to be a madman.

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  Heart, Eye, Winning

  "Modernism: An Anthology". Book by Lawrence Rainey, p. 2, 2005.

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• It is therefore necessary to prepare the imminent and inevitable identification of man with the motor, facilitating and perfecting an incessant exchange of intuition, rhythm, instinct and metallic discipline, quite utterly unknown to the majority of humanity and only divined by the most lucid mind.

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  Men, Discipline, Humanity

  "International Futurism in Arts and Literature" by Günter Berghaus, (p. 318), 2000.

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• We love the indomitable bellicose patriotism that sets you apart; we love the national pride that guides your muscularly courageous race; we love the potent individualism that doesn't prevent you from opening your arms to individualists of every land, whether libertarians or anarchists.

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  Pride, Race, Land

  "Futurist Speech to the English". Lecture at the Lyceum Club of London in 1910. "Marinetti: Selected Writings", 1972.

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• We had stayed up all night, my friends and I, under hanging mosque lamps with domes of filigreed brass, domes starred like our spirits, shining like them with the prisoned radiance of electric hearts. For hours we had trampled our atavistic ennui into rich oriental rugs, arguing up to the last confines of logic and blackening many reams of paper with our frenzied scribbling.

  Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

  Writing, Heart, Night

  "The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism" by F. T. Marinetti. Le Figaro, www.italianfuturism.org. February 20, 1909.

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• Art deals with profound and simple moods. Let us suppose that the artist - in this instance (the artist) Picabia - gets a certain impression by looking at our skyscrapers, our city, our way of life, and that he tries to reproduce it. He will convey it in plastic ways on the canvas, even though we see neither skyscrapers nor city on it.

  Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

  Art, Simple, Cities

  The Globe and commercial advertiser (newspaper), p. 8/10, February 20, 1913.

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• The compliments you are about to pay could only sadden me, because what you love in our dear peninsula is exactly the object of our hatreds. Indeed, you crisscross Italy only to meticulously sniff out the traces of our oppressive past, and you are happy, insanely happy, if you have the good fortune to carry home some miserable stone on which our ancestors have trodden.

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  Home, Past, Compliments You

  "Modernism and Its Margins: Reinscribing Cultural Modernity from Spain and Latin America" by Anthony L. Geist, Jose B. Monle-N, Taylor & Francis, (p. 57), 1999.

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