Formal Quotes by Guillaume Apollinaire

One day One day I waited for myself I said to myself Guillaume it's time you came So I could know just who I…

— Guillaume Apollinaire

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

— Guillaume Apollinaire

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

— Guillaume Apollinaire

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

— Guillaume Apollinaire

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

— Guillaume Apollinaire

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

— Guillaume Apollinaire

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

— Guillaume Apollinaire

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

— Guillaume Apollinaire

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

— Guillaume Apollinaire

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

— Guillaume Apollinaire

Memories are hunting horns whose sound dies on the wind.

— Guillaume Apollinaire

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

— Guillaume Apollinaire