13 Quotes by Umberto Boccioni

With Michelangelo anatomical science is transformed into music. With him the human body is architectonic matter for the construction of dreams.

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

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

We must now learn to draw inspiration from the tangible miracles that surround us.

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 aesthetic clique. It expresses the violent desire that stirs in the veins of every creative artist today.

A time will come when the eye of man will perceive colors as feelings within itself.

It isnecessary to destroy the pretended nobility, entirely literaryand traditional, of marble and bronze? The sculptor can use twenty different materials, or even more, in a single work, provided that the plastic emotion requires it.

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 their turn the houses throw themselves upon the bus and are blended with it.

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 and triumphant flourishes.