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

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

Guillaume Apollinaire
Father, Corpses
'L'Antitradition futuriste' (1913)

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.

Guillaume Apollinaire
Art, Men, Civilization

We cannot carry our father's corpse with us everywhere we go.

Guillaume Apollinaire
Father, Live In The Present, Corpses

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

Guillaume Apollinaire
Artist, Men, Ideas

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

Guillaume Apollinaire
Beautiful, Song, War

In this mirror, I am enclosed a live and real as you. Imagine angels and not like the reflections.

Guillaume Apollinaire
Real, Angel, Reflection

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

Guillaume Apollinaire
Truth, Unity, Purity

Geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer.

Guillaume Apollinaire
Art, Order, Plastic
Guillaume Apollinaire, Dorothea Eimert (2014). “Cubism”, p.12, Parkstone International

I hate artists who are not of their time.

Guillaume Apollinaire
Hate, Artist, I Hate
Guillaume Apollinaire, Peter F. Read (2004). “The Cubist Painters”, p.42, Univ of California Press

Without artists, the order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish.

Guillaume Apollinaire
Art, Artist, Order

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

Guillaume Apollinaire
Jesus, Sky, Bird
Guillaume Apollinaire (2011). “Alcools: Poems”, p.5, Wesleyan University Press

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