Destroy the Museums. Crack syntax. Sabotage the adjective. Leave nothing but the verb. Filippo Tommaso Marinetti More Quotes by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti More Quotes From Filippo Tommaso Marinetti We will glorify war-the world's only hygiene, milliterism, patriotism , the destructive gesture of freedom-bringers, beautiful ideas worth dying for, and scorn for woman Filippo Tommaso Marinetti hygiene beautiful war There is no longer beauty except in the struggle. No more masterpieces without an aggressive character. Poetry must be a violent assault against the unknown forces in order to overcome them and prostrate them before men. Filippo Tommaso Marinetti struggle character men We say that the world's magnificence has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed. Time and Space died yesterday. We already live in the absolute, because we have created eternal, omnipresent speed. Filippo Tommaso Marinetti space yesterday world We want to sing the love of danger, the habit of energy and rashness. Filippo Tommaso Marinetti habit energy want A new beauty has been added to the splendor of the world - the beauty of speed. Filippo Tommaso Marinetti splendor speed world Art, in fact, can be nothing but violence, cruelty and injustice. Filippo Tommaso Marinetti violence facts art War is the highest form of modern art. Filippo Tommaso Marinetti modern war art 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? Filippo Tommaso Marinetti wish enemy past 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 Tommaso Marinetti progress genius inspiration Spaghetti is no food for fighters. Filippo Tommaso Marinetti spaghetti fighter When will you disembarrass yourselves of the lymphatic ideology of that deplorable Ruskin, which I would like to cover with so much ridicule that you would never forget it? With his morbid dream of primitive and rustic life, with his nostalgia for Homeric cheeses and legendary wool-spinners, with his hatred for the machine, steam power, and electricity, that maniac of antique simplicity is like a man who, after having reached full physical maturity, still wants to sleep in his cradle and feed himself at the breast of his decrepit old nurse in order to recover his thoughtless infancy. Filippo Tommaso Marinetti dream sleep men 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 Tommaso Marinetti pride brother men I feel the matter of my heart being transformed, metallized, in an optimism of steel. Filippo Tommaso Marinetti optimism steel heart War, the World's Only Hygiene Filippo Tommaso Marinetti hygiene war art It is from Italy that we launch through the world this violently upsetting incendiary manifesto of ours. With it, today, we establish Futurism, because we want to free this land from its smelly gangrene of professors, archaeologists, ciceroni and antiquarians. Filippo Tommaso Marinetti burning cancer world A Race car is more beautiful than the Victory of Samotracia Filippo Tommaso Marinetti car race beautiful We had stayed up all night, my friends and I, under hanging mosque lamps with domes of filigreed brass, domes starred like our spirits, shining like them with the prisoned radiance of electric hearts. For hours we had trampled our atavistic ennui into rich oriental rugs, arguing up to the last confines of logic and blackening many reams of paper with our frenzied scribbling. Filippo Tommaso Marinetti heart writing night In order to win over Paris and appear, in the eyes of all Europe, an absolute innovator, the most advanced of all, I urge you to get to work with all your heart, resolute on being bolder, crazier, more advanced, surprising, eccentric, incomprehensible, and grotesque than anybody else in music. I urge you to be a madman. Filippo Tommaso Marinetti eye winning heart It is therefore necessary to prepare the imminent and inevitable identification of man with the motor, facilitating and perfecting an incessant exchange of intuition, rhythm, instinct and metallic discipline, quite utterly unknown to the majority of humanity and only divined by the most lucid mind. Filippo Tommaso Marinetti discipline humanity men Let us leave good sense behind like a hideous husk and let us hurl ourselves, like fruit spiced with pride, into the immense mouth and breast of the world! Let us feed the unknown, not from despair, but simply to enrich the unfathomable reservoirs of the Absurd! Filippo Tommaso Marinetti despair pride world
