"Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary……" — 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 order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere."
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Guillaume Apollinaire
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32 Quotes by Guillaume Apollinaire
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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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Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.
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How slow life is, how violent hope is.
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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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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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