"Artists are, above all, men who want to…" — Guillaume Apollinaire
"Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman."
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32 Quotes by Guillaume Apollinaire
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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just 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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I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of…
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How slow life is, how violent hope is.
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When man resolved to imitate walking, he invented the wheel, which does not look like a leg. In doing this,…
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When man wanted to make a machine that would walk he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg.
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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…
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Cubism is the art of depicting new wholes with formal elements borrowed not only from the reality of vision, but…
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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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It's raining my soul, it's raining, but it's raining dead eyes.
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To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality.
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