Guillaume Apollinaire Quotations Guillaume Apollinaire Quotations A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature. 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.
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. To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality. And Other Vietnam War Short Stories Memories Are Like Clouds VietnamWar.net email Memorable Quotations.