Guillaume Apollinaire Quotes

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 hate artists who are not of their time.

– Guillaume Apollinaire

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

– Guillaume Apollinaire

Joy always came after pain.

– Guillaume Apollinaire

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

– Guillaume Apollinaire

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

– Guillaume Apollinaire

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

– Guillaume Apollinaire

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

– Guillaume Apollinaire

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

– 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