“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.” HeartEyeOrderWinningEuropeAbsolutesParisUrgesSurprisingEccentricMadmenInnovatorsGrotesqueResolute 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
“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
