Artist Quotes by Guillaume Apollinaire

9 Artist quotes by Guillaume Apollinaire

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Guillaume Apollinaire’s reflections on the artist surface in these nine snippets, each a punch of his characteristic wit. It’s a modest set that still captures his playful, avant‑garde spirit, perfect for a quick literary coffee break.

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Matisse renovates rather than innovates.

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Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

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I hate artists who are not of their time.

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Without artists, the order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish.

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Paint with whatever material you please - with pipes, postage stamps, postcards or playing cards, painted paper, or newspapers.

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Without artists, the sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed.

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Cubism is the art of depicting new wholes with formal elements borrowed not only from the reality of vision, but from that…

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Without poets, without artists... everything would fall apart into chaos. There would be no more seasons, no more civilizations, no more thought,…

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Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with…

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Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.

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Now and then it is good to just pause in our pursuit of happiness and be happy.

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A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.

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“Six mirrors keep staring at one another ("Monday rue Christine")”

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I don't want to work. I want to smoke.

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Cubism is the art of depicting new wholes with formal elements borrowed not only from the reality of vision, but from that of conception.

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“Automn ill and adored You die when the hurricane blows in the roseries When it has snowed In the orchard trees Poor automn Dead…

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The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.

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Memories are hunting horns whose sound dies on the wind.

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Geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer.

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“Oh Paris From red to green all the yellow dies away Paris Vancouver Hyeres Maintenon New York and the Antilles The window opens like…

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The new painters do not propose, any more than did their predecessors, to be geometers. But it may be said that geometry is to…

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“Overhead in the Paris sky Two airplanes fought it out one day And one of them was my whole youth The other was my…

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