Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Giacomo Balla

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Italian painter Giacomo Balla.
Last updated on October 1, 2024.
Giacomo Balla

Giacomo Balla was an Italian painter, art teacher and poet best known as a key proponent of Futurism. In his paintings he depicted light, movement and speed. He was concerned with expressing movement in his works, but unlike other leading futurists he was not interested in machines or violence with his works tending towards the witty and whimsical.

Indeed, all things move, all things run, all things are rapidly changing. A profile is never motionless before our eyes, but it constantly appears and disappears. On account of the persistency of an image upon the retina, moving objects constantly multiply themselves; their form changes like rapid vibrations, in their mad career. Thus a running horse has not four legs, but twenty, and their movements are triangular.
We shall find the abstract equivalent for all forms & elements in the universe, then we shall combine them in sculptural constructions according to the mood of our inspiration.
They did not want anything to do with me in Paris and they were right: they have gone much further than I, but I will work and I too will progress. — © Giacomo Balla
They did not want anything to do with me in Paris and they were right: they have gone much further than I, but I will work and I too will progress.
And we [The Futurist artists] must invent dynamic designs to go with them and express them in equally dynamic shapes: triangles, cones, spirals, ellipses, circles, etc.
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