Guillaume Apollinaire

I hate artists who are not of their time.

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.

When man wanted to make a machine that would walk he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg.

The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.

It's raining my soul, it's raining, but it's raining dead eyes.

Geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer.

Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

Now and then its good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Joy always came after pain.

One can't carry one's father's corpse about everywhere.

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.

Color is the fruit of life.