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> [When man resolved to imitate walking, he invented the wheel, which does not look like a leg. In doing this, he was practicing surrealism without knowing it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guillaume-apollinaire/when-man-resolved-to-imitate-walking-he-invented-the-wheel-which-does/)

[Guillaume Apollinaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guillaume-apollinaire/)

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## More 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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guillaume-apollinaire/one-day-one-day-i-waited-for-myself-i-said-to-myself-guillaume-it-s/)

[Guillaume Apollinaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guillaume-apollinaire/)

> [Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guillaume-apollinaire/without-poets-without-artists-men-would-soon-weary-of-nature-s/)

[Guillaume Apollinaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guillaume-apollinaire/)

> [Now and then it is good to just pause in our pursuit of happiness and be happy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guillaume-apollinaire/now-and-then-it-is-good-to-just-pause-in-our-pursuit-of-happiness-and/)

[Guillaume Apollinaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guillaume-apollinaire/)

> [A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guillaume-apollinaire/a-structure-becomes-architectural-and-not-sculptural-when-its/)

[Guillaume Apollinaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guillaume-apollinaire/)

> [“Six mirrors keep staring at one another ("Monday rue Christine")”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guillaume-apollinaire/six-mirrors-keep-staring-at-one-another-monday-rue-christine/)

[Guillaume Apollinaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guillaume-apollinaire/)

> [I don't want to work. I want to smoke.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guillaume-apollinaire/i-don-t-want-to-work-i-want-to-smoke/)

[Guillaume Apollinaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guillaume-apollinaire/cubism-is-the-art-of-depicting-new-wholes-with-formal-elements/)

[Guillaume Apollinaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guillaume-apollinaire/automn-ill-and-adored-you-die-when-the-hurricane-blows-in-the/)

[Guillaume Apollinaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guillaume-apollinaire/)

> [The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guillaume-apollinaire/the-plastic-virtues-purity-unity-and-truth-keep-nature-in-subjection/)

[Guillaume Apollinaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guillaume-apollinaire/)

> [Paint with whatever material you please - with pipes, postage stamps, postcards or playing cards, painted paper, or newspapers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guillaume-apollinaire/paint-with-whatever-material-you-please-with-pipes-postage-stamps/)

[Guillaume Apollinaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guillaume-apollinaire/)

> [Memories are hunting horns whose sound dies on the wind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guillaume-apollinaire/memories-are-hunting-horns-whose-sound-dies-on-the-wind/)

[Guillaume Apollinaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guillaume-apollinaire/)

> [Geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guillaume-apollinaire/geometry-is-to-the-plastic-arts-what-grammar-is-to-the-art-of-the/)

[Guillaume Apollinaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guillaume-apollinaire/)

> [“Oh Paris From red to green all the yellow dies away Paris Vancouver Hyeres Maintenon New York and the Antilles The window opens like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guillaume-apollinaire/oh-paris-from-red-to-green-all-the-yellow-dies-away-paris-vancouver/)

[Guillaume Apollinaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guillaume-apollinaire/)

> [The new painters do not propose, any more than did their predecessors, to be geometers. But it may be said that geometry is to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guillaume-apollinaire/the-new-painters-do-not-propose-any-more-than-did-their-predecessors/)

[Guillaume Apollinaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guillaume-apollinaire/)

> [“Overhead in the Paris sky Two airplanes fought it out one day And one of them was my whole youth The other was my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guillaume-apollinaire/overhead-in-the-paris-sky-two-airplanes-fought-it-out-one-day-and-one/)

[Guillaume Apollinaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guillaume-apollinaire/)

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