FILIPPO MARINETTI, his quotes on Italian Futurism and its Manifesto and biography + life facts
Filippo Marinetti (1876 – 1944), his quotes on Futurism art + biography information of Futurism the writer of the Futurist Manifesto in Italy. Marinetti was an Italian poet, writer and editor; he founded Futurism as author and publisher of the Futurist Manifesto in 1908. In 1910 he found his allies in the young painters, (Boccioni, Carrà, Russolo) a. o.. In 1918 Marinetti connected Futurism with Italian Fascism. At the bottom useful art links for more biography facts on Marinetti. – the editor.
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futurist portrait of Marinetti, c. 1909 |
Filippo Marinetti, his quotes on Italian Futurism art & the Manifesto
- Idealists, workers of thought, unite to show how inspiration and genius walk in step with the progress of the machine, of aircraft, of industry, of trade, of the sciences, of electricity.
* Filippo Marinetti, artist quotes a.o. on the Futurist Manifesto by the founder of Italian Futurism review ‘Poesia’, Marinetti 1905; as quoted in “Futurism”, ed. By Didier Ottinger; Centre Pompidou / 5 Continents Editions, Milan, 2008, p. 78 (famous Italian writer, poet; later closely connected to fascism).
- Art […] can be nothing but violence, cruelty, and injustice.
* Filippo Marinetti, artist quotes a.o. on the Futurist Manifesto ‘Marinetti’ on English Wikipedia.
- …destroy the museums, the libraries, every type of academy… …the great crowds, shaken by work, by pleasure or by rioting”… …We will glorify war – the world’s only hygiene – militarism, patriotism, the destructive gesture of freedom-bringers, beautiful ideas worth dying for, and scorn for woman.
* quote from the Futurist Manifesto by the founder of Italian Futurism on English Wikipedia.
- O my brother Futurists! All of you, look at yourselves! … …In the name of that Human Pride we so adore, I proclaim that the hour is nigh when men with broad temples and steel chins will give birth magnificently, with a single trust of their bulging will, to giants with flawless gestures.
* Filippo Marinetti, artist quote from the Futurist Manifesto ‘Preface’ in the novel ‘ Mafraka, le Futuriste’ 1909; as quoted in “Futurism”, ed. By Didier Ottinger; Centre Pompidou / 5 Continents Editions, Milan, 2008, p. 313, note 15.
- While an artist is labouring at his work of art, nothing prevents it from surpassing Dream. As soon as it is finished, the work must be hidden or destroyed, or better still, thrown as a prey tot the brutal crowd which will magnify it by killing it with its scorn, and thereby intensify its absurd uselessness. We thus condemn art as finished work, we conceive of it only in its movement, in the state of effort and draft. Art is simply a possibility for absolute conquest. For the artist, to complete is to die.
* quote from the Futurist Manifesto ‘ Le Premier Manifeste du Futurisme’, critical edition with facsimile of Marinetti’s original manifesto (famous Italian writer, poet; later closely connected to fascism).
- …war is the world’s only form of hygiene.
* Filippo Marinetti, artist quote from “Abstract Painting”, Michel Seuphor, Dell Publishing Co.,1964, p. 81.
- Time and space died yesterday. We already live in the absolute, because we have already created eternal, omnipresent speed… …(we will sing of) the vibrant nightly fervour of arsenals and shipyards with violent electric moons; greedy railway stations that devour smoke-plumbed serpents… …deep-chested locomotives whose wheels paw the tracks like the hoves of enormous steel horses.
* artist quote by the founder of Italian Futurism ‘The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism’, Marinetti, ‘Le Figaro’, 20 February 1909, in ‘Futurist Manifestos’, ed. Appolonio , Thames and Hudson, London, p. 22.
- We affirm that the world’s magnificence has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed. A racing car whose hood is adorned with great pipes, like serpents of explosive breath – a roaring car that seems to run on grapeshot is more beautiful than The Victory of Samothrace (1910).
* quote on the Futurist Manifesto by the founder of Italian Futurism ‘The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism’, ‘Le Figaro’, 20 February 1909, in ‘Futurist Manifestos’, ed. Appolonio , Thames and Hudson, London (famous Italian writer, poet; later closely connected to fascism).
- To the conception of the imperishable, the immortal, we oppose, in art, that of becoming, the perishable, the transitory, and the ephemeral. (these ideas and conceptions, around 1911, are strongly connected to ’élan vitale’ of the French philosopher Bergson, teaching in Paris those years, fh)
* source, ‘We Abjure Our Most Symbolist Masters, the Last Lovers of the Moon’, Marinetti, “Selected Writings”, Secker & Warburg, Nondon 1972, p. 67.
- Art deals with profound and simple moods… …Let us suppose that the artist – in this instance Picabia – gets a certain impression by looking at our skyscrapers, our city, our way of life, and that he tries to reproduce it…. …he will convey it in plastic ways on the canvas, even though we see neither skyscrapers nor city on it.
* from an interview ‘A Paris painter’, H. Hapgood; in ‘Globe and commercial Advertiser, 20 February 1913, p. 8 / 107.
- Mondrian is the greatest Futurist painter of the North.
* Filippo Marinetti, artist quot from “Abstract Painting”, Michel Seuphor, Dell Publishing Co., 1964, p. 36.
- Try to live the war pictorially studying it in all its mechanical forms ( military trains, fortifications, wounded men, ambulances, hospitals, parades, etc.
* his artist quote in a letter of Marinetti to Severini, 20 November 1914, cited in “Futurism”, Tisdall and Bozsolla, Thames and Hudson, 1973, p. 190.
- On 11 October 1908, having worked for six years at my international magazine (em>Poesia in an attempt to free the Italian lyrical genius that was under sentence of death from its traditional and commercial fetters, I suddenly felt that articles, poetry and controversies were no longer enough. It was absolutely crucial to switch methods, get out into the streets, lay siege to theatres, and introduce the fisticuff into the artistic struggle. … …My Italian blood raced faster when my lips coined out loud the word . It was the new formula of Action-Art and a code of mental health. It was a youthful and innovative banner, anti-traditional, optimistic, heroic and dynamic, that had to be hoisted over the ruins of all attachment to the past.
* from, ‘Guerra sola igiene del mundo’, Marinetti, Edizione futuriste di Poesia, Milan 1915; as quoted in “Futurism”, ed. By Didier Ottinger; Centre Pompidou / 5 Continents Editions, Milan, 2008, p. 21.
art links for information on Marinetti & Futurist Manifesto, life & biography facts
* short biography of Marinetti, founder of Italian Futurism, on Wikipedia, with many useful links
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