"To paint a human figure you must not paint it; you must render the whole of its surrounding atmosphere."

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Source : "Futurism" edited by Didier Ottinger; Centre Pompidou / 5 Continents Editions, Milan, (p. 172), 2008.

Umberto Boccioni

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