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Try to live the war pictorially studying it in all its mechanical forms (military trains, fortifications, wounded men, ambulances, hospitals, parades, etc).

— Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

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And now I am obliged to tell you what it is that clearly distinguishes Futurism from anarchism.

War, the Only Hygiene of the World (1911)

Art, in fact, can be nothing but violence, cruelty and injustice.

..there is no longer any beauty except the struggle. Any work of art that lacks a sense of aggression can never be a masterpiece.

Mondrian is the greatest Futurist painter of the North.

The past is necessarily inferior to the future. That is how we wish it to be. How could we acknowledge any merit in our most dangerous enemy: the past, gloomy prevaricator, execrable tutor?

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