79 Quotes by Guillaume Apollinaire

Without artists, the sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed.

Twentieth pupil of the centuries knows its stuff and bird-changed this century like Jesus climbs the sky.

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

My, how beautiful is war! its songs, its leisure!

The new painters do not propose, any more than did their predecessors, to be geometers. But it may be said that geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer. Today, scholars no longer limit themselves to the three dimensions of Euclid. The painters have been lead quite naturally, one might say by intuition, to preoccupy themselves with the new possibilities of spatial measurement which, in the language of the modern studios, are designated by the term fourth dimension.

I sing the joy of wandering and the pleasure of the wanderer's death

Color is the fruit of life.

How slow life is, how violent hope is.

I don't want to work. I want to smoke.