Quotes by Guillaume Apollinaire - Page 1

Joy always came after pain.
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Joy
Pain
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Joy came always after pain.
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Joy
Pain
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Color is the fruit of life.
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Color
Colour
Fruit
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I don't want to work. I want to smoke.
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Work
Smoke
Want
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How slow life is, how violent hope is.
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Life Is
Violent
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Matisse renovates rather than innovates.
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Matisse
Renewal
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I hate artists who are not of their time.
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Artist
Hate
I Hate
Artists
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My, how beautiful is war! its songs, its leisure!
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War
Beautiful
Song
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One can't carry one's father's corpse about everywhere.
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Corpses
Father
Everywhere
Carry
Corpse
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Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.
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Art
Men
Inhuman
Want
Above
Artists
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Memories are hunting horns whose sound dies on the wind.
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Hunting
Memories
Wind
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Vienne la nuit sonne l'heure Les jours s'en vont je demeure
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We cannot carry our father's corpse with us everywhere we go.
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Corpses
Father
Live In The Present
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People quickly grow accustomed to being the slaves of mystery.
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Criticism
Mystery
People
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It's raining my soul, it's raining, but it's raining dead eyes.
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Eye
My Soul
Rain
Soul
Dead
Eyes
Raining
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I sing the joy of wandering and the pleasure of the wanderer's death
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Joy
Pleasure
Wander
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The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.
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Truth
Plastic
Purity
Subjection
Unity
Virtues
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Geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer.
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Art
Order
Plastic
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Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.
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Art
Inspiring
Men
Monotony
Weary
Artists
Poets
Soon
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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
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Depression
Happiness
Happy
Life
Positive
Good
Now And Then
Pursuit
Pursuit Of Happiness
Just
Now
Then
Be Happy
Our
Just Be
Pause
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To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality.
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Art
Personality
Purity
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Without artists, the sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed.
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Men
Artist
Ideas
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In this mirror, I am enclosed a live and real as you. Imagine angels and not like the reflections.
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Angel
Real
Reflection
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When man wanted to make a machine that would walk he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg.
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Men
Doe
Machines
Leg
Resemble
Wheel
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Twentieth pupil of the centuries knows its stuff and bird-changed this century like Jesus climbs the sky.
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Jesus
Bird
Sky
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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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Art
Artist
Order
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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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Nature
Architecture
Elements
Justification
Structure
Architectural
Becomes
Longer
Sculptural
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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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Love
Men
Divides
Heart
Hearts
Unites
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Paint with whatever material you please - with pipes, postage stamps, postcards or playing cards, painted paper, or newspapers.
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Cards
Paint
Paper
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One day/ One day I waited for myself/ I said to myself Guillaume it's time you came/ So I could know just who I am/ I who know others.
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Time
One Day
Who I Am
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Cubism is the art of depicting new wholes with formal elements borrowed not only from the reality of vision, but from that of conception.
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Art
Reality
Vision
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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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Men
Doe
Knowing
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Come to the edge.' 'We can't. We're afraid.' 'Come to the edge.' 'We can't. We will fall!' 'Come to the edge.' And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.
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Courage
Smile
Fear
Fall
Flew
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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.
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Artist
Civilization
Fall
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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.
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Art
Men
Civilization
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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.
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Art
Intuition
Today
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