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> [If we paint the phases of a riot, the crowd bustling with uplifted fists and the noisy onslaughts of cavalry are translated upon the canvas in sheaves of lines corresponding with all the conflicting forces, following the general laws of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-boccioni/if-we-paint-the-phases-of-a-riot-the-crowd-bustling-with-uplifted/)

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## More by Umberto Boccioni

> [Our bodies penetrate the sofas upon which we sit and the sofas penetrate our bodies. The motorbus rushes into the houses which it passes,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-boccioni/our-bodies-penetrate-the-sofas-upon-which-we-sit-and-the-sofas/)

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> [Your eyes, accustomed to semi-darkness, will soon open to more radiant visions of light. The shadows which we shall paint shall be more luminous…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-boccioni/your-eyes-accustomed-to-semi-darkness-will-soon-open-to-more-radiant/)

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> [Art is viable when it finds elements in the surrounding environment. Our ancestors drew their subject matter from the religious attitudes which weighed on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-boccioni/art-is-viable-when-it-finds-elements-in-the-surrounding-environment/)

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> [It isnecessary to destroy the pretended nobility, entirely literaryand traditional, of marble and bronze? The sculptor can use twenty different materials, or even more,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-boccioni/it-isnecessary-to-destroy-the-pretended-nobility-entirely-literaryand/)

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> [All art critics are useless or harmful.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-boccioni/all-art-critics-are-useless-or-harmful/)

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> [If we paint the phases of a riot, the crowd bustling with uplifted fists and the noisy onslaughts of cavalry are translated upon the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-boccioni/if-we-paint-the-phases-of-a-riot-the-crowd-bustling-with-uplifted/)

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> [A time will come when the eye of man will perceive colors as feelings within itself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-boccioni/a-time-will-come-when-the-eye-of-man-will-perceive-colors-as-feelings/)

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> [These days I am obsessed by sculpture! I believe I have glimpsed a complete renovation of that mummified art.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-boccioni/these-days-i-am-obsessed-by-sculpture-i-believe-i-have-glimpsed-a/)

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> [It will be readily admitted that brown tints have never coursed beneath our skin; it will be discovered that yellow shines forth in our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-boccioni/it-will-be-readily-admitted-that-brown-tints-have-never-coursed/)

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> [In the first manifesto that we launched on the 8th of March, 1910, from the stage of the Chiarella Theater in Turin,1 we expressed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-boccioni/in-the-first-manifesto-that-we-launched-on-the-8th-of-march-1910-from/)

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> [To the Young Artists of Italy! The cry of rebellion that we launch, linking our ideals with those of the Futurist poets, does not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-boccioni/to-the-young-artists-of-italy-the-cry-of-rebellion-that-we-launch/)

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> [There is neither painting, nor sculpture, nor music, nor poetry. The only truth is creation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-boccioni/there-is-neither-painting-nor-sculpture-nor-music-nor-poetry-the-only/)

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> [A portrait, to be a work of art, neither must nor may resemble the sitter... one must paint its atmosphere.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-boccioni/a-portrait-to-be-a-work-of-art-neither-must-nor-may-resemble-the/)

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> [We must now learn to draw inspiration from the tangible miracles that surround us.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-boccioni/we-must-now-learn-to-draw-inspiration-from-the-tangible-miracles-that/)

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> [While the impressionists make a table to give one particular moment and subordinate the life of the table to its resemblance to this moment,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-boccioni/while-the-impressionists-make-a-table-to-give-one-particular-moment/)

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