Umberto Boccioni Quote

A time will come when the picture will no longer be enough. Its immobility will become an archaism with the vertiginous movement of human life. The eye of man will perceive colours as feelings within itself. Multiplied colours will not need form to be understood and paintings will be swirling musical compositions of great coloured gases, which, on the scene of a free horizon, will move and electrify the complex soul of a crowd that we cannot yet conceive of.


Quote in his lecture at the Associazione Artistica Internationale, Rome May 1911; as quoted in Futurism, ed. Didier Ottinger; Centre Pompidou / 5 Continents Editions, Milan, 2008, p. 55. - Boccioni's lecture 'La Pittura Futurista', 1911


A time will come when the picture will no longer be enough. Its immobility will become an archaism with the vertiginous movement of human life. The...

A time will come when the picture will no longer be enough. Its immobility will become an archaism with the vertiginous movement of human life. The...

A time will come when the picture will no longer be enough. Its immobility will become an archaism with the vertiginous movement of human life. The...

A time will come when the picture will no longer be enough. Its immobility will become an archaism with the vertiginous movement of human life. The...