Futurism Quotes

• If we define Futurism as an exploration beyond accepted limits, then the nature of limiting systems becomes the first object of exploration.

  Frank Herbert

  Limits, Firsts, Exploration

  "Doll Factory, Gun Factory" in "he Maker of Dune: Insights of a Master of Science Fiction" edited by Tim O'Reilly, 1987.

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• Futurism is almost like a vaccination. You inject a little bit of a denatured pathogen to prepare your body in case you encounter it for real.

  Jamais Cascio

  Real, Encounters, Body

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• We want to sing the love of danger, the habit of energy and rashness.

  Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

  Energy, Want, Habit

  Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, “Futuristic Manifesto”

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• If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Twenties, Firsts, Century

  Douglas Rushkoff (2013). “Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now”, p.6, Penguin

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• Futurism and Cubism are comparable in importance to the invention of perspective, for which they substituted a new concept of space. All subsequent movements were latent in them or brought about by them.. ..the two movements cannot be regarded as in opposition to each other, even though they started from opposite points; I maintain [an idea approved by Appolinaire and later by Matisse that they are two extremes of the same sign, tending to coincide at certain points which only the poetic instinct of the painter can discover: 'poetry' being the content and 'raison d'tre' of art.

  Gino Severini

  Art, Opposites, Ideas

  "Letters of the great artists" by Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, (pp. 248-249), 1963.

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• In visual futurism, the line between total fantasy and futuristic is a thread of reality.

  Syd Mead

  Reality, Lines, Fantasy

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• War, the World's Only Hygiene

  Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

  Art, War, Hygiene

  Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1998). “Mafarka the Futurist: An African Novel”

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• Cultivate your Futurism. I'll cultivate my Döblinism.

  Alfred Doblin

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• The activities of these parasites and degenerates gave rise to Cubism, Fauvism, Futurism, Pointillism, Constructivism, Orphism, Surrealism, Dada, and also Impossibleism, Supersurrealism, Dynamic Double-Dog Realism, Ishkabibbleism, and Mama, which is like Dada only nicer.

  Daniel Pinkwater

  Dog, Degenerates, Mama

  Daniel Pinkwater (2012). “Bushman Lives!”, p.70, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is from Italy that we launch through the world this violently upsetting incendiary manifesto of ours. With it, today, we establish Futurism, because we want to free this land from its smelly gangrene of professors, archaeologists, ciceroni and antiquarians.

  Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

  Cancer, Burning, World

  "The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism" by F. T. Marinetti. Le Figaro, www.italianfuturism.org. February 20, 1909.

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• Futurism today is led by science-fiction writers, by sociologists, by historians. Now, I have nothing against them. I'm sure they do great work. But they're not scientists. They're clueless.

  Michio Kaku

  Clueless, Fiction, Today

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• As opposed to a movie [Real Steel] where everything feels fantastical, it was really important to me, and I recognise it's not the first movie with robots in it, but that blend of naturalism in performance, writing and design with the futurism of this sport. That was the idea.

  Shawn Anthony Levy

  Sports, Real, Writing

  Source: collider.com

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• A schism in the body social, will not be resolved by any scheme of a return to the good old days (archaism), or by programs guaranteed to render an ideal projected future (futurism), or even by the most realistic, hardheaded work to weld together again the deteriorating elements. Only birth can conquer death -- the birth, not of the old thing again, but of something new.

  Joseph Campbell

  Old Things, Together Again, Elements

  Peter A. Clayton, Joseph Campbell (1994). “Great figures of mythology”, Gramercy

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• Ecology movements, futurism, feminism, urbanism, protest and disarmament, personal individuation cannot alone save the world from the catastrophe inherent in our very idea of the world. They require a cosmological vision that saves the phenomenon 'world' itself, a move in soul that goes beyond measures of expediency to the archetypal source of our world's continuing peril: the fateful neglect, the repression, of the anima mundi.

  James Hillman

  Moving, Ideas, Our World

  James Hillman (2006). “City and Soul: Uniform Edition”, Spring Publications

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