"For
twenty-seven years we futurists have rebelled against the branding
of war as anti-aesthetic... accordingly we state war is beautiful
because it establishes mans dominion over the subjugated machinery
by means of gas-masks, terrifying megaphones, flame throwers, and
small tanks. War is beautiful because it initiates the dreamt-of
metallization of the human body. War is beautiful because it
enriches a flowering meadow with the fiery orchids of machine
guns. War is beautiful because it combines the gunfire, the
cannonades, the cease-fire, the scents, and the stench of
purification into a symphony. War is beautiful because it creates
a new architecture, like that of the big tanks, the geometrical
formation flights, the smoke spirals from burning villages, and
many others....poets and artists of futurism! Remember these
principals of an aesthetic of war so that your struggle for a new
literature and a new graphic art...may be illuminated by them." - MARINETTI -
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" If there is a
battle and I believe that there is, always has been, and that's
what has made Van Goghs and Mahlers as well as "Dizzy" Gillespies
and Charlie Parkers, then please be careful of your leaders. For
there are many in your ranks who would rather be president of
general motors than burn down the Shell oil station around the
corner. But, since they can't have one, they take the other. These
are the human rats of the centuries who have kept us where we are.
This is Debcek coming back from Russia, a half man, afraid of
psychic death. A man must finally learn that it is better to die
with his balls slowly cut off than to live any other way. Foolish?
No more foolish than the greatest miracle. But if you are caught
in the trap always understand what it is that you're trading for
exactly."
- BUKOWSKI -
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" A written word is the choicest of relics. It
is something at once more intimate with us and more
universal, than any other work of art." - THOREAU -
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" A man leaving church, ... a woman getting
out of the bath....the first with his soul full of
hope." - DUCHAMP -
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