"They did not want anything to do with me in Paris and they [the younger Futurist artists Boccioni and Gino Severini ] were right: they have gone much further than I, but I will work and I too will progress."
— Umberto Boccioni

January 1, 1970

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Quote of Giacomo Balla his former art-teacher - repeated in a letter of Umberto Boccioni to his Futurist art-friend Gino Severini, Jan. 1913; as quoted in Futurism, ed. By Didier Ottinger; Centre Pompidou / 5 Continents Editions, Milan, 2008, p. 248; Balla was referring to his former pupils, the young Futurist painters Boccioni and Severini.