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
To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality. – Guillaume Apollinaire
The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection. – Guillaume Apollinaire
Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman. – Guillaume Apollinaire
I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and women trample themselves and die. Something magnificent is taking place here amidst the cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to intelligence is that of making the noblest and best in our curious heritage prevail. – Charles Austin Beard