Marinetti’s enemy was the past. He attacked history and memory with operatic zeal [including] the ineradictable Italian love of pasta - which Marinetti condemned as passéiste in 1930, on the ground that ‘it is heavy, brutalizing, and gross - it induces scepticism and pessimism. Spaghetti is no food for fighters.’
—Robert Hughes (1938–2012), from The Shock of the New
