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

— 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.

Mondrian is the greatest Futurist painter of the North.

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

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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Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.

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True beauty dwells in deep retreats,
Whose veil is unremoved
Till heart with heart in concord beats,
And the lover is beloved.

William Wordsworth

The great artists are the ones who dare to entitle to beauty things so natural that when they're seen afterward, people say: Why did I never realize before that this too was beautiful?

André Gide The Immoralist (1902)

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator.

William Shakespeare The Rape of Lucrece (1594)

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