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Constructions of a-rhythmical forms, the clash between concrete and abstract forms.. ..The acute angle is passionate and dynamic, expressing will and a penetrating force.

— Carlo Carrà

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Stumbling into the midst of anarchists, barely 18 years old, I too started to dream of 'inevitable changes, inhuman society, free love', etc.

La mia Vita (1945), Carlo Carrà; as quoted in Futurism, ed. Didier Ottinger (2008)

Reds, rrrrreds, the rrrrreddest rrrrreds that shouuuuuuut.

He (Picasso, ed.) is almost one of us [the Futurists].

We insist that our concept of perspective is the total antitheses of all static perspective. It is dynamic and chaotic in application, producing in the mind of the observer a veritable mass of plastic emotions.

Boccioni and I were swiftly persuaded that with this show in Paris we were staking our all; for a flop would have meant kissing our fine aspirations goodbye. This is why we decided to go to Paris, to see what the art situation there was like.

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