"A portrait, to be a work of art, neither must nor may resemble the sitter... one must paint its atmosphere."
"While the impressionists make a table to give one particular moment and subordinate the life of the table to its resemblance to this moment, we synthesize every moment (time, place, form, color-tone) and thus build the table."
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Source: Futurism edited by Didier Ottinger; Centre Pompidou / 5 Continents Editions, Milan, (p. 172), 2008.
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