Source: Art & Other Serious Matters, (1985), p. 55, "Evidences of Surreality"
“While an artist is labouring at his work of art, nothing prevents it from surpassing Dream. As soon as it is finished, the work must be hidden or destroyed, or better still, thrown as a prey to the brutal crowd which will magnify it by killing it with its scorn, and thereby intensify its absurd uselessness. We thus condemn art as finished work, we conceive of it only in its movement, in the state of effort and draft. Art is simply a possibility for absolute conquest. For the artist, to complete is to die.”
Quote of marinetti in his 'Le Premier Manifeste du Futurisme', 1909
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