"A portrait, to be a work of art, neither must nor may resemble the sitter... one must paint its atmosphere."
"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 than the high-lights of our predecessors, and our pictures, next to those of the museums, will shine like blinding daylight, compared with deepest night. We conclude that painting cannot exist today without divisionism... ...Divisionism, for the modern painter, must be an innate complementariness which we declare to be essential and necessary."
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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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