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No one can any longer believe that an object ends where another begins.

— Umberto Boccioni

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Notes from Wikiquote

Boccioni is here referring to the starting photography of 'moving horses' c. 1914

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How is it possible still to see the human face pink, now that our life, redoubled by noctambulism, has multiplied our perceptions as colourists? The human face is yellow, red, green, blue, violet.

The time has passed for our sensations in painting to be whispered. We wish them in the future to sing and re-echo upon our canvasses in deafening and triumphant flourishes.

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