Carolina QuotesThe sentiment of the Futurists was simpler. No space. Everything ought to keep going! That's probably the reason they went themselves. Either a man was a machine or else a sacrifice to make machines with..
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- 'What Abstract Art means to me' (1951)
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- 1951
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