“How is it possible still to see the human face pink, now that our life, redoubled by noctambulism, has multiplied our perceptions as colorists’ The human face is yellow, red, green, blue, violet. The pallor of a woman gazing in a jeweller’s window is more intensely iridescent that the prismatic fires of the jewels that fascinate her like a lark.”

—F.T. Marinetti, from his Futurist Painting: Technical Manifesto, 1910.