Guillaume Apollinaire
Guillaume Apollinaire
Guillaume Apollinairewas a French poet, playwright, short story writer, novelist, and art critic of Polish descent...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth26 August 1880
CountryFrance
art reality vision
Cubism is the art of depicting new wholes with formal elements borrowed not only from the reality of vision, but from that of conception.
hate artist i-hate
I hate artists who are not of their time.
art order grammar
Geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer.
art artist order
Without artists, the order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish.
men artist ideas
Without artists, the sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed.
art personality purity
To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality.
art intuition three
The new painters do not propose, any more than did their predecessors, to be geometers. But it may be said that geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer. Today, scholars no longer limit themselves to the three dimensions of Euclid. The painters have been lead quite naturally, one might say by intuition, to preoccupy themselves with the new possibilities of spatial measurement which, in the language of the modern studios, are designated by the term fourth dimension.
fall artist civilization
Without poets, without artists... everything would fall apart into chaos. There would be no more seasons, no more civilizations, no more thought, no more humanity, no more life even; and impotent darkness would reign forever. Poets and artists together determine the features of their age, and the future meekly conforms to their edit.
art men order
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.
inspiring art men
Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.
men artist want
Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.
french full great logic painting school today universe
French painting today is the only school which counts; only it plunders the universe for the logic of the great traditions, only it is full of life.
life
Vienne la nuit sonne l'heure Les jours s'en vont je demeure
father corpses
One can't carry one's father's corpse about everywhere.