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Art Quotes by Guillaume Apollinaire
- 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…
- Cubism is the art of depicting new wholes with formal elements borrowed not only from the reality of vision, but from that of conception.
- To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality.
- Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.
- 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…
- Geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer.
- 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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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
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- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
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- There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have… — Karen Armstrong
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- Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. — Isaac Asimov