"Art deals with profound and simple moods.. ..Let us suppose that the artist - in this instance (the artist )Picabia - gets a certain impression by looking at our skyscrapers, our city, our way of life, and that he tries to reproduce it.. ..he will convey it in plastic ways on the canvas, even though we see neither skyscrapers nor city on it."

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Source : The Globe and commercial advertiser (newspaper), p. 8/10, February 20, 1913.

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

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“My business issues are just that - business - and I deal with them like they are business.”

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