All Guillaume Apollinaire Quotes
- Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. Beautiful
- A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature. Architectural
- I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their… All
- Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman. All
- How slow life is, how violent hope is. Hope
- 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… Doe
- When man wanted to make a machine that would walk he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg. Created
- Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The… Art
- Cubism is the art of depicting new wholes with formal elements borrowed not only from the reality of vision, but from that of conception. Art
- The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection. Keep Nature
- Memories are hunting horns whose sound dies on the wind. Dies
- It's raining my soul, it's raining, but it's raining dead eyes. Dead
- To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality. Art
- One can't carry one's father's corpse about everywhere. Carry
- Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. Art
- We cannot carry our father's corpse with us everywhere we go. Cannot Carry
- I hate artists who are not of their time. Artist
- Joy always came after pain. Always Came
- The new painters do not propose, any more than did their predecessors, to be geometers. But it may be said that geometry is to the… Any
- Color is the fruit of life. Color
- Paint with whatever material you please - with pipes, postage stamps, postcards or playing cards, painted paper, or newspapers. Cards
- Geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer. Art
- Without artists, the order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Art
- Matisse renovates rather than innovates. Innovates
- Without artists, the sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. Artist