..the gesture that we want.. ..will be the dynamic sensation itself. — Gino Severini

"[Severini referred to himself as a] ..primitive who is thrilled by the movement of a dancer and boulevard filled with people."

"The metaphysical forms which compose our futurist pictures are the result of realities conceived and realities created entirely by the artist. These last are inspired by the emotion or intuition and dependent on atmosphere-ambience."

"The sea dancing, its zig-zag movements and contrasting silver and emerald, evokes within my plastic sensibility the distant vision of a dancer covered in a sparkling sequins in her world of light, noise and sound. Therefore Sea = dancer [= title of a painting he made in 1914]"

"..displacement of bodies in [the] atmosphere [where] two persons form but one plastic unity, rhythmically balanced."

"this complex form of realism.. ..totally destroys the integrity of the subject-matter.. .The abstract colors and forms that we portray belong to Universe outside time and space."

"I would like my colors to be diamonds and to be able to make abundant use of them in my pictures so as to make them gleam with light and richness."