"Boccioni's gift was to bring a fresh eye to reality in ways that, we now recognise, defined the nature of the modern …"

"They did not want anything to do with me in Paris and they [the younger Futurist artists Boccioni and Gino Severini ]…"

"Boccioni, Russolo and I all met in the Porta Vittoria café [in Milan, Italy], close to where we all lived, and we ent…"

"In the brief life span of the Italian Futurist movement, the short-lived Umberto Boccioni was a blazing comet.. .Bocc…"

"Boccioni and I were swiftly persuaded that with this show in Paris we were staking our all; for a flop would have mea…"

"This bubbling and whirling of forms and lights, composed of sounds, noises, and smells has been partly achieved by me…"

"Your eyes, accustomed to semi-darkness, will soon open to more radiant visions of light. The shadows which we shall p…"

"Our bodies penetrate the sofas upon which we sit and the sofas penetrate our bodies. The motorbus rushes into the hou…"

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

"Who can still believe in the opacity of bodies since our sharpened and modified sensitivity has already penetrated th…"