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Fortunato Depero
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“We Futurists, Balla and Depero, seek to realize this total fusion in order to reconstruct the universe by making it more joyful, in other words by an integral re-creation. 'We will give skeleton and flesh to the invisible, the impalpable, the imponderable and the imperceptible. We will find abstract equivalents for all the forms and elements of the universe, and then well will combine them according to the caprice of our inspiration, to shape plastic complexes which we will set in motion.”
Fortunato Depero (1892–1960) first seen 1915 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Futurist Reconstruction of the Universe Manifesto with Giacomo Balla, in: Direzione del Movimento Futurista, March 11, 1915. Translation by Caroline Tisdall, 1973.
“The Futurists were the first painters, poets, and architects who exalted modern work with their art—”
Fortunato Depero (1892–1960) said by 1960 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Futurism attracted me and made me better, gave me a new strength, showed me new fields and possibilities.”
Fortunato Depero (1892–1960) said by 1960 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 14; Cited in: Maurizio Scudiero, David Leiber, Fortunato Depero (1986) Depero futurista & New York: il futurismo e l'arte pubblicitaria, p. 112
“The first and foremost critic of a work of art is the artist who created it. Give him every means to illustrate it and make it known. If an artist awaits celebrity or gratefulness for his work through other people, he will have the time to die a thousand times for sheer hunger.”
Fortunato Depero (1892–1960) said by 1960 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If a painter once devoted himself to dynamism and now abandons it, denies it and even criticizes it, it is his own business. This does not mean, however that futurism has had his day. It is always worthy of interest and many artists still work in its ranks with unchanged passion. Dynamism is in life and in nature itself.”
Fortunato Depero (1892–1960) said by 1960 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The art of the future will be largely advertising. that bold and unimpeachable lesson I have learned from museums and great works from the past— all art for centuries past has been marked by advertising purposes: the exaltation of the warrior, the saint; documentation of deeds, ceremonies, and historical personages depicted at their victories, with their symbols, in the regalia of command and splendor— even their highest products were simultaneously meant to glorify something: architecture, royal palaces, thrones, drapery, halberds, standards, heraldry and arms of every sort— there is scarcely an ancient work that doesn’t have advertising motifs, a garland with a trophy, with weapons of war and victory, all stamped with seals and the original symbols of clans, all with the self-celebrating freedom of ultra-advertising”
Fortunato Depero (1892–1960) first seen 1931 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Depero (1931) "Futurism and Adverticing Art"; Partly quoted in: Jonathon Keats, "Fortunato Depero's Italian Futurism," forbes.com, 2009/06/08