"A portrait, to be a work of art, neither must nor may resemble the sitter... one must paint its atmosphere."
"It isnecessary to destroy the pretended nobility, entirely literaryand traditional, of marble and bronze? The sculptor can use twenty different materials, or even more, in a single work, provided that the plastic emotion requires it."
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Source: Manifesto of Futurist Painters in April 1910. Futurism. Book edited by Didier Ottinger, p. 64, 2008.
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