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Guillaume Apollinaire Quotes



Quotes by Guillaume Apollinaire - (12 quotes)

Guillaume Apollinaire - From the Artists category:

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. (Guillaume Apollinaire)

Guillaume Apollinaire - From the Artists category:

Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman. (Guillaume Apollinaire)

Guillaume Apollinaire - From the Colour category:

Color is the fruit of life. (Guillaume Apollinaire)

Guillaume Apollinaire - From the Fear category:

'Come to the edge.' 'We can't. We're afraid.' 'Come to the edge.' 'We can't. We will fall!' 'Come to the edge.' And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew. (Guillaume Apollinaire)

Guillaume Apollinaire - From the Masters category:

-on Georges Braque...
His role was heroic. His art serene and splendid. He expresses a beauty full of tenderness, and the pearly sheens of his paintings play on our senses like a rainbow. (Guillaume Apollinaire)

Guillaume Apollinaire - From the Materials category:

Paint with whatever material you please – with pipes, postage stamps, postcards or playing cards, painted paper, or newspapers. (Guillaume Apollinaire)

Guillaume Apollinaire - From the Nature category:

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. (Guillaume Apollinaire)

Guillaume Apollinaire - From the Order category:

Geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer. (Guillaume Apollinaire)

Guillaume Apollinaire - From the Order category:

Without artists, the order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. (Guillaume Apollinaire)

Guillaume Apollinaire - From the Renewal category:

Matisse renovates rather than innovates. (Guillaume Apollinaire)

Guillaume Apollinaire - From the Timeliness category:

I hate artists who are not of their time. (Guillaume Apollinaire)

Guillaume Apollinaire - From the Universe category:

Without artists, the sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. (Guillaume Apollinaire)