“While the impressionists make a table to give one particular moment and subordinate the life of the table to its resemblance to this moment, we synthesize every moment (time, place, form, color-tone) and thus build the table.”

1914 - 1916, Pittura e scultura futuriste' Milan, 1914

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Italian painter and sculptor 1882–1916

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