“This is the end of painting. What could be more beautiful than this propellor?” — F. Leger, on the occasion of the opening of the aircraft pavilion in Paris, 1912.

“I do not withdraw from politics, only in the sphere of art there should be no politics.” — Vladimir Mayakovsky, just before his suicide in 1930.

“The man who is organized will inherit the world.” — Aleksandr Rodchenko, 1925.