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Guillaume Apollinaire Inspirational Quotes (15)

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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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Geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer.
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Matisse renovates rather than innovates.
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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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Without artists, the sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed.
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Memories are hunting horns whose sound dies on the wind.
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When man resolved to imitate walking, he invented the wheel, which does not look like a leg. In doing this, he was practicing surrealism without knowing it.
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Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.
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The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.
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It's raining my soul, it's raining, but it's raining dead eyes.
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Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.
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Joy always came after pain.
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I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts.
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We cannot carry our father's corpse with us everywhere we go.
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How slow life is, how violent hope is.
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