“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.” MenGivingHumansLooksNamesHoursBrotherPrideBirthGiantsMy BrotherTemplesBroadsGesturesSteelAdoreChinsFlawlessFuturist Author:Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
“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.” MenWantStillsDreamOrderSleepForgetHatredMachinesSimplicityNostalgiaIdeologyMaturityBreastsNever ForgetNursePrimitiveCheeseElectricityRidiculeForget ItCradleSteamInfancyLegendaryAntiquesMorbidManiacsWoolRusticWant To SleepDecrepitSpinner Author:Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
“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.” MenMindHumanityDisciplineMajorityInstinctIntuitionRhythmInevitableMotorIdentificationIncessantMetallic Author:Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
“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.” MenCharacterOrderForceStruggleOvercomingViolentAggressiveAssaultMasterpiece Author:Filippo Tommaso Marinetti