"Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?"
"It is the object which aroused the artist, stimulated his ideas and set of his emotions. These ideas and emotions will be imprisoned in his work for good."
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Source: Futurism. Book edited by Didier Ottinger, Centre Pompidou / 5 Continents Editions, Milan, p. 313, 2008.
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