“We thus arrive at what we call the painting of states of mind.
“One may remark, also, in our pictures spots, lines, zones of colour which do not correspond to any reality, but which, in accordance with a law of our interior mathematics, musically prepare and enhance the emotion of the spectator.
“We thus create a sort of emotive ambience, seeking by intuition the sympathies and the links which exist between
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the exterior (concrete) scene and the interior (abstract) emotion. Those lines, those spots, those zones of colour, apparently illogical and meaningless, are the mysterious keys to our pictures.
“Conclusion: Our futurist painting embodies three new conceptions of painting:
“1. That which solves the question of volumes in a picture, as opposed to the liquefaction of objects favoured by the vision of the impressionists.