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• Paint with whatever material you please - with pipes, postage stamps, postcards or playing cards, painted paper, or newspapers.

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  Cards, Paper, Paint

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• One can't carry one's father's corpse about everywhere.

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  Father, Corpses

  'L'Antitradition futuriste' (1913)

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• Cubism is the art of depicting new wholes with formal elements borrowed not only from the reality of vision, but from that of conception.

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  Art, Reality, Vision

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• Without artists, the sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed.

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  Artist, Men, Ideas

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• The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.

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  Truth, Unity, Purity

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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 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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  Art, Men, Civilization

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• We cannot carry our father's corpse with us everywhere we go.

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  Father, Live In The Present, Corpses

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• My, how beautiful is war! its songs, its leisure!

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  Beautiful, Song, War

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• In this mirror, I am enclosed a live and real as you. Imagine angels and not like the reflections.

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  Real, Angel, Reflection

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• Twentieth pupil of the centuries knows its stuff and bird-changed this century like Jesus climbs the sky.

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  Jesus, Sky, Bird

  Guillaume Apollinaire (2011). “Alcools: Poems”, p.5, Wesleyan University Press

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• 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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  Art, Artist, Order

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