"It will be readily admitted that brown tints have never coursed beneath our skin; it will be discovered that yellow shines forth in our flesh, that red blazes, and that green, blue and violet dance upon it with untold charms, voluptuous and caressing."

"How is it possible still to see the human face pink, now that our life, redoubled by noctambulism, has multiplied our perceptions as colourists? The human face is yellow, red, green, blue, violet."

"The gesture which we would reproduce on canvas shall no longer be a fixed moment in universal dynamism. It shall simply be the dynamic sensation itself. Indeed, all things move, all things run, all things are rapidly changing.. .We would at any price re-enter into life."

"Abito a Corso di Porta Romana da più di trent'anni, e ancora oggi, se mi spingo fuori dai soliti percorsi, mi succede di fare qualche scoperta, come la casa dove risiedeva Boccioni ai primi del Novecento, quando il grande pittore futurista Boccioni si stabilì a Milano con la madre, in via Adige in un modesto stabile tardo-liberty. In via Isonzo c'era solo lo scalo ferroviario, dopo il cavalcavia di Corso Lodi soltanto prati e marcite, e in via Mantova non esisteva ancora il vecchio mulino della Saiwa."

"..the characteristic motion peculiar to the object (absolute motion), with the transformations the object undergoes in its shifting in relation to the environment, mobile or immobile (relative motion; both motions should be conceived in art)"

"With our enthusiastic adherence to Futurism, we will:"

"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 street enters the house'."

"..Is it indisputable that several aesthetic declarations of our French comrades (the Cubists) display a sort of masked academicism. It is not, indeed, a return to the Academy to declare that the subject, in painting, has a perfectly insignificant value?.. .To paint from the posing model as an absurdity, and an act of mental cowardice, even if the model be translated upon the picture in linear, spherical and cubic forms.."

"Sculpture is based on the abstract of the planes and volumes that determine the forms, not their figurative value."

"..if the objects will be mathematical values, the ambient in which they live will be a particular rhythm in the emotion which surrounds them. The graphic translation of this rhythm will be a state of form, a state of color, each of which will give back to the spectator the 'state of mind' which produced it.."

"It is also true that without flashes of the absolute, which are granted to only a few, humanity would proceed in the dark, indeed it would not exist, because it would not acknowledge itself to itself! And as far as I know the flash as never preceded by explanations or preambles, and only a very small mind.. ..could fail to understand that eternal aspiration absolute and that the work is the relative, that to create is already to circumscribe; that to comment is to circumscribe the circumscribed, is to subdivide the divided; is to reduce to minimum terms, is to annihilate."

"[to erect].. ..a new altar throbbing with dynamism as pure and exultant as those which were elevated to divine mystery through religious contemplation."

"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."

"In the first Manifesto that we launched on the 8th of March, 1910, from the stage of the Chiarella Theater in Turin, 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."

"What was the truth for the painters of yesterday is but a falsehood today. We declare, for instance, that a portrait must not like the sitter.. .To paint a human figure, you must not paint it; you must render its surrounding [aura-like] atmosphere. Space no longer exists.. .Who can still believe in the opacity of bodies, since our sharpened and multiplied sensibilities has already penetrated the obscure manifestations of mediums? Why should we forget in our creations the doubled power of our sight, capable of giving analogous to those of X-rays?"

"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.. .w:Divisionism - [ Paul Signac initiated divisionism slightly earlier, together with Seurat ] - for the modern painter, must be an innate complementariness which we declare to be essential and necessary."

"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."

"No, no entro. Porque si entro no hay nadie."

"A veces, de noche, enciendo una luz, para no ver."

"Quien no llena su mundo de fantasmas, se queda solo."

"Algunos, adelantándose a todos, van ganando el desierto."

"En último instante, toda mi vida durará un instante."

"Con mi encadenamiento a la tierra pago la libertad de mis ojos."

"Herir al corazón es crearlo."

"Se vive con la esperanza de llegar a ser un recuerdo."

"Habla con su propia palabra sólo la herida."

"Nadie puede no ir más allá. Y más allá hay un abismo."

"Estar en compañía no es estar con alguien, sino estar en alguien."

"Antes de recorrer mi camino yo era mi camino."

"Cuando me hiciste otro, te dejé conmigo."

"Durmiendo sueño lo que despierto sueño. Y mi soñar es continuo."

"Arrancamos a la vida la vida, para con ella, verla."

"Lo que dicen las palabras no dura. Duran las palabres. Porque las palabras son siempre las mismas y lo que dicen no es nunca lo mismo."

"Una cosa, hasta no ser toda, es ruido, y todo, es silencio."

"Si nada se nos fuera durante la vida, se nos iría la vida sin nada."

"Porque saben el nombre de lo que busco ¡creen que saben lo que busco!"

"De lo que tomo, tomo de más o de menos, no tomo lo justo. Lo justo no me sirve."

"El temor de separación es todo lo que une."

"Está atado a ellos y no comprendes cómo, porque ellos no están atados a ti."

"Mueren cien años en un instante, lo mismo que un instante en un instante."

"Mi pesadez viene de los precipicios."

"Se puede no deber nada devolviendo la luz al sol."

"El hombre, cuando sabe que es una cosa cómica, no ríe."

"Desde que yo solo sé qué me sucede, no me sucede nada."

"Tú crees que me matas. Yo creo que te suicidas."

"Todo es como los ríos, obra de las pendientes."

"Dios le ha dado mucho al hombre; pero el hombre quisiera algo del hombre."

"Se aprende a no necesitar, necesitando."

"Cuando yo muera, no me veré morir, por primera vez."