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
men artist ideas
Without artists, the sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed.
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.
love heart men
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.
men machines legs
When man wanted to make a machine that would walk he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg.
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.
men knowing looks
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.
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.
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.
father our-father corpses
We cannot carry our father's corpse with us everywhere we go.
hate artist i-hate
I hate artists who are not of their time.
pain joy
Joy always came after pain.