Guillaume Apollinaire Quotes - Page 2

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

  Guillaume Apollinaire

  Father, Corpses

  'L'Antitradition futuriste' (1913)

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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.

  Guillaume Apollinaire

  Art, Men, Civilization

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

  Guillaume Apollinaire

  Father, Live In The Present, Corpses

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

  Guillaume Apollinaire

  Artist, Men, Ideas

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

  Guillaume Apollinaire

  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.

  Guillaume Apollinaire

  Real, Angel, Reflection

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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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• I hate artists who are not of their time.

  Guillaume Apollinaire

  Hate, Artist, I Hate

  Guillaume Apollinaire, Peter F. Read (2004). “The Cubist Painters”, p.42, Univ of California Press

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• Geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer.

  Guillaume Apollinaire

  Art, Order, Plastic

  Guillaume Apollinaire, Dorothea Eimert (2014). “Cubism”, p.12, Parkstone International

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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.

  Guillaume Apollinaire

  Art, Artist, Order

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

  Guillaume Apollinaire

  Jesus, Sky, Bird

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

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