We will glorify war-the world's only hygiene, milliterism, patriotism , the destructive gesture of freedom-bringers, beautiful ideas worth dying for, and scorn for woman

We want to sing the love of danger, the habit of energy and rashness.

Destroy the Museums. Crack syntax. Sabotage the adjective. Leave nothing but the verb.

A new beauty has been added to the splendor of the world - the beauty of speed.

Art, in fact, can be nothing but violence, cruelty and injustice.

War is the highest form of modern art.

The past is necessarily inferior to the future. That is how we wish it to be. How could we acknowledge any merit in our most dangerous enemy: the past, gloomy prevaricator, execrable tutor?

Idealists, workers of thought, unite to show how inspiration and genius walk in step with the progress of the machine, of aircraft, of industry, of trade, of the sciences, of electricity.

Spaghetti is no food for fighters.

I feel the matter of my heart being transformed, metallized, in an optimism of steel.

War, the World's Only Hygiene

Saying "yes" to yourself means acknowledging what you have that's good and working on the things that aren't.

The Republican Party: a few million gun-toting, Armageddon-ready Baptists.

I'd sooner live among people who don't cheat at cards than among people who are earnest about not cheating at cards.

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.

When our children die, we drop them into the unknown, shuddering with fear. We know that they go out from us, and we stand, and pity, and wonder.

Love the process and you’ll love what the process produces.

...an actor is exactly as big as his imagination.

What's the use of being a writer if you can't irritate a great many people?

The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.

I have respect for those who make money at art and do it well and smartly, because that commercial aspect keeps the world going and running, in a sense.