--- title: "4 Giacomo Balla Quotes" description: "Giacomo Balla was an Italian painter, art teacher and poet best known as a key proponent of Futurism. In his paintings, he depicted light, movement and ..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f90/giacomo-balla-70920_accounts_indeed-all-things-move-all-things-run-al_21020.jpg" --- # Giacomo Balla **4** quotes in **38** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Giacomo Balla was an Italian painter, art teacher and poet best known as a key proponent of Futurism. In his paintings, he depicted light, movement and speed. He was concerned with expressing movement in his works, but unlike other leading futurists he was not interested in machines or violence with ## Quotes by Giacomo Balla > [Indeed, all things move, all things run, all things are rapidly changing. A profile is never motionless before our eyes, but it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giacomo-balla/indeed-all-things-move-all-things-run-all-things-are-rapidly-changing/) [Giacomo Balla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/giacomo-balla/) [Accounts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/accounts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f90/giacomo-balla-70920_accounts_indeed-all-things-move-all-things-run-al_21020.jpg) > [ And we \[The Futurist artists\] must invent dynamic designs to go with them and express them in equally dynamic shapes: triangles, cones,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giacomo-balla/and-we-the-futurist-artists-must-invent-dynamic-designs-to-go-with/) [Giacomo Balla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/giacomo-balla/) [Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e15/giacomo-balla-70920_art_and-we-the-futurist-artists-must-invent_1063434.jpg) > [They did not want anything to do with me in Paris and they were right: they have gone much further than I,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giacomo-balla/they-did-not-want-anything-to-do-with-me-in-paris-and-they-were-right/) [Giacomo Balla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/giacomo-balla/) [Gone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/gone/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/57a/giacomo-balla-70920_gone_they-did-not-want-anything-to-do-with-me_1067643.jpg) > [We shall find the abstract equivalent for all forms & elements in the universe, then we shall combine them in sculptural constructions…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giacomo-balla/we-shall-find-the-abstract-equivalent-for-all-forms-elements-in-the/) [Giacomo Balla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/giacomo-balla/) [Abstract](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/abstract/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/460/giacomo-balla-70920_abstract_we-shall-find-the-abstract-equivalent-fo_1864598.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/giacomo-balla/#itemlist", "name": "Giacomo Balla Quotes", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Indeed, all things move, all things run, all things are rapidly changing. 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