Carlo Carrà Quotes

February 11, 1881 – April 13, 1966

Carlo Carrà (February 11, 1881 – April 13, 1966) was a leading artist of the Italian Futurist movement. In addition to his many paintings, he wrote a number of books concerning art.

The painting of sounds, noises and smells calls for: 1. Reds, rrrrreds, the rrrrrreddest rrrrrrreds that shouuuuuuut. 2.Greens, that can never be greener, greeeeeeeeeeeens that screeeeeeam, yellows, as violent as can be: polenta yellows, saffron yellows, brass yellows.

1913  In the Manifesto of Futurist Painting, quoted in Futurismo e Futurismi (1986).

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This is the truth! In order to achieve this total painting, which requires the active cooperation of all the senses, a painting which is a plastic state of mind of the universal, you must paint, as drunkards sing and vomit, sounds, noises and smells!

Carlo Carrà
— 1913  In the Manifesto of Futurist Painting, quoted in Futurismo e Futurismi (1986).

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Constructions of a-rhythmical forms, the clash between concrete and abstract forms… …The acute angle is passionate and dynamic, expressing will and a penetrating force.

Carlo Carrà
— Carrà, "Piani plastici come espanzione sferica nello spazio", March 1913; As quoted in Futurism, Didier Ottinger (ed.), 2008, p. 146

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We stand for a use of colour free from the imitation of objects and things as coloured objects. We stand for an aerial vision in which the material of colour is expressed in all of the manifold possibilities our subjectivity can create.

Carlo Carrà
— Carrà (1913), as quoted in: Anna Moszynska, Abstract Art, Thames and Hudson 1990, p. 26: Statement on Futurism

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The idea for this picture came to me one winter’s night as I was leaving La Scala. In the foreground there is a snow sweeper with a few couples, men in top hats and elegant ladies. I think that this canvas, which is totally unknown in Italy, is one of the paintings where I best represented the concept that I had the time about my art.

Carlo Carrà
— Carrà (ca 1910), "La mia Vita"; As quoted in Futurism, Didier Ottinger (ed.), 2008, p. 154: About the picture "Uscita dal teatro" (Leaving the theatre)

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