Quotes by

Guillaume Apollinaire

To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality. – Guillaume Apollinaire

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

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

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

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. – Guillaume Apollinaire

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

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