Quotes from Umberto Boccioni

There is neither painting, nor sculpture, nor music, nor poetry. The only truth is creation.

A time will come when the eye of man will perceive colors as feelings within itself.

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.

A portrait, to be a work of art, neither must nor may resemble the sitter... one must paint its atmosphere.

These days I am obsessed by sculpture! I believe I have glimpsed a complete renovation of that mummified art.

With Michelangelo anatomical science is transformed into music. With him the human body is architectonic matter for the construction of dreams.