Giacomo Balla Quotes

• Indeed, all things move, all things run, all things are rapidly changing. A profile is never motionless before our eyes, but it constantly appears and disappears. On account of the persistency of an image upon the retina, moving objects constantly multiply themselves; their form changes like rapid vibrations, in their mad career. Thus a running horse has not four legs, but twenty, and their movements are triangular.

  Giacomo Balla

  Running, Horse, Moving

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• We shall find the abstract equivalent for all forms & elements in the universe, then we shall combine them in sculptural constructions according to the mood of our inspiration.

  Giacomo Balla

  Inspiration, Elements, Construction

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• And we [The Futurist artists] must invent dynamic designs to go with them and express them in equally dynamic shapes: triangles, cones, spirals, ellipses, circles, etc.

  Giacomo Balla

  Circles, Design, Triangles

  "Futurism" edited by Didier Ottinger; Centre Pompidou, 5 Continents Editions, Milan, (p. 148), 2008.

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• They did not want anything to do with me in Paris and they were right: they have gone much further than I, but I will work and I too will progress.

  Giacomo Balla

  Paris, Progress, Gone

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