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Guillaume Apollinaire
French
Novelist
About the author
A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.
Guillaume Apollinaire,
French
Novelist
#Nature
#Justification
One can't carry one's father's corpse about everywhere.
Guillaume Apollinaire,
French
Novelist
#Father
Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.
Guillaume Apollinaire,
French
Novelist
#Men
#Artists
#Nature
#Poets
Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.
Guillaume Apollinaire,
French
Novelist
#Want
#Men
#Artists
I hate artists who are not of their time.
Guillaume Apollinaire,
French
Novelist
#Time
#Artists
#Hate
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.
Guillaume Apollinaire,
French
Novelist
#Want
#Love
#Men
It's raining my soul, it's raining, but it's raining dead eyes.
Guillaume Apollinaire,
French
Novelist
#Eyes
#Soul
Joy always came after pain.
Guillaume Apollinaire,
French
Novelist
#Pain
#Joy
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
Guillaume Apollinaire,
French
Novelist
#Now
#Happiness
#Pursuit
The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.
Guillaume Apollinaire,
French
Novelist
#Truth
#Nature
#Unity
#Purity
When man wanted to make a machine that would walk he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg.
Guillaume Apollinaire,
French
Novelist
#Man
#Machine