Quotes by Guillaume Apollinaire

• A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.
• One can't carry one's father's corpse about everywhere.
• Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.
• Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.
• 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.
• It's raining my soul, it's raining, but it's raining dead eyes.
• Joy always came after pain.
• Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
• The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.
• When man wanted to make a machine that would walk he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg.