"Above all, we [the Italian Futurist painters] continue and develop the divisionist principle, but we are not engaged …"

"Sound is defined as the result of a succession of regular and periodic vibrations. Noise is instead caused by motions…"

"My dear Balilla Pratella"

"In antiquity, life was nothing but silence. Noise was really not born before the 19th century, with the advent of mac…"

"This revolution of music is paralleled by the increasing proliferation of machinery sharing in human labor. In the po…"

"This evolution toward noise-sound is only possible today. The ear of an eighteenth century man never could have withs…"

"Each sound carries with it a nucleus of foreknown and foregone sensations predisposing the auditor to boredom, in spi…"

"My ears open nasals! beware! such joy is yours o my people to sense see ear scent drink everything everything everyth…"

"Noise accompanies every manifestation of our life. Noise is familiar to us. Noise has the power to bring us back to l…"

"My dear Pratella, I submit to your futurist genius these new ideas, and I invite you to discuss them with me. I am no…"