“But prices for the opening ceremony and some events' final competition should be a little bit higher.” Quote by Liu Jingmin
“China will certainly pay more attention to human rights.” HumansPayAttentionRightsHuman RightsChina Author:Liu Jingmin
“Monolingualism is the illiteracy of the 21st century!” Century21st CenturyIlliteracy Author:Greg Roberts
“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.” DifferentUseEmotionMaterialsTwentiesTraditionalPlasticNobilityMarbleSculptorsBronze Author:Umberto Boccioni
“If we paint the phases of a riot, the crowd bustling with uplifted fists and the noisy onslaughts of cavalry are translated upon the canvas in sheaves of lines corresponding with all the conflicting forces, following the general laws of violence of the picture... These force-lines must encircle and involve the spectator so that he will in a manner be forced to struggle himself with the persons in the picture.” IfsPersonsLawForceLinesStruggleViolencePaintCrowdsFollowingPhasesCanvasFistsSpectatorsRiotNoisyCorrespondingCavalry Author:Umberto Boccioni
“While the impressionists make a table to give one particular moment and subordinate the life of the table to its resemblance to this moment, we synthesize every moment (time, place, form, color-tone) and thus build the table.” GivingMomentsFormParticularColorTablesToneSubordinatesResemblanceImpressionists Author:Umberto Boccioni
“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.” DoeTodayYoungDesireArtistCreativeCryPoetIdealsViolentRebellionAestheticVeinsCreative ArtCliqueCreative ArtistsYoung ArtistsFuturist Author:Umberto Boccioni
“In the first manifesto that we launched on the 8th of March, 1910, from the stage of the Chiarella Theater in Turin,1 we expressed our deep-rooted disgust with, our proud contempt for, and our happy rebellion against vulgarity, mediocrity, the fanatical and snobbish worship of all that is old, attitudes which are suffocating Art in our Country.” FirstsArtCountryAttitudeStageProudWorshipTheaterOur CountryRebellionMarchContemptMediocrityRootedDisgustingVulgaritySuffocatingManifestosSnobbish Author:Umberto Boccioni
“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.” BodyTurnsHouseBusPenetrateSofas Author:Umberto Boccioni
“Your eyes, accustomed to semi-darkness, will soon open to more radiant visions of light. The shadows which we shall paint shall be more luminous than the high-lights of our predecessors, and our pictures, next to those of the museums, will shine like blinding daylight, compared with deepest night. We conclude that painting cannot exist today without divisionism... ...Divisionism, for the modern painter, must be an innate complementariness which we declare to be essential and necessary.” LightEyeTodayNightNextVisionDarknessModernPaintingEssentialsShadowShiningPaintPainterMuseumsAccustomedInnateDaylightLuminousRadiantPredecessors Author:Umberto Boccioni
“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.” WishPaintingSensationsEchoesTriumphant Author:Umberto Boccioni