Quotes by Guillaume Apollinaire

A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.
– Guillaume Apollinaire
Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.
– 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
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
– Guillaume Apollinaire
The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.
– Guillaume Apollinaire
To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality.
– 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