"The Rhine, with two long branches, stretches out and loses itself among inlets and hills, the boats of tourists and o…"

"They [ Boccioni and Severini ] did not want anything to do with me in Paris and they were right: they have gone much …"

"In the evening I study a fair.. ..if you could see the pomp and luxury of the merry-go-round and the stands and booth…"

"It will interest artists because, in it, I have made a special study of the way of walking of this girl, and, in fact…"

"Villages and valleys pass by [Balla viewed during his train voyage to Düsseldorf in July 1912] and with my friend the…"

"WE MUST DESTROY ALL PASSÉIST CLOTHES, and everything about them which is tight-fitting, colourless, funereal, decaden…"

"WE MUST INVENT FUTURIST CLOTHES, hap-hap-hap-hap-happy clothes, daring clothes with brilliant colours and dynamic lin…"

"Use materials with forceful MUSCULAR colours – the reddest of reds, the most purple of purples, the greenest of green…"

"And we must invent dynamic designs to go with them and express them in equally dynamic shapes: triangles, cones, spir…"

"We want Futurist clothes to be comfortable and practical Dynamic Aggressive Shocking Energetic Violent Flying (i.e. g…"