That it is necessary to revolt against the tyranny of the words “harmony” and “good taste,” expressions too elastic and with which one might easily condemn the works of Rembrandt, Goya, and Rodin.
That art critics are useless and detrimental.
That it is necessary to brush aside all the subjects already used, in order to adequately express our turbulent life of steel, of pride, of feverish rapidity.
That the name madmen applied to all innovators shall be considered a title of honor.
That the universal force must be shown in painting as a sensation dynamic.
Above all, sincerity and purity are required in the portrayal of nature.
That movement and light destroy the materiality of objects.
We are opposed to the use of those bituminous colors by which it is attempted to secure the effect of time on modern pictures.
We are opposed to the superficial and elementary archaism based on the flat tints and linear manner of the Egyptians, which makes painting puerile and grotesque.
We are opposed to the false modernism of the Secessionists and Independents who have built up new “schools” as pontifical as the old.