Guillaume Apollinaire Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

17 Famous Quotes by Guillaume Apollinaire
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“The plastic virtues: Purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.”
Unity Quotes
“A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.”
Justification Quotes
“The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.”
Purity Quotes
“Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.”
Inspirational Quotes
“Come to the edge/ No, we will fall/ Come to the edge/ No, we will fall/ They came./ He pushed them. And they flew.”
Inspirational Quotes
“Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.”
Melancholy Quotes
“Come to the edgeHe said. They said: We are afraid.Come to the edgeHe said. They came.He pushed them, andthey flew...”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“One can't carry one's father's corpse about everywhere.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“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.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“I hate artists who are not of their time.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Come to the edge, he said. They said: We are afraid. Come to the edge, he said. They came. He pushed them and they flew.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Joy always came after pain.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“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.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
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