Guillaume Apollinaire

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

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

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

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

Come to the edgeHe said. They said: We are afraid.Come to the edgeHe said. They came.He pushed them, andthey flew...

Come to the edgeHe said. They said: We are afraid.Come to the edgeHe said. They came.He pushed them, andthey flew...

I hate artists who are not of their time.

I hate artists who are not of their time.

French painting today is the only school which counts; only it plunders the universe for the logic of the great read more

French painting today is the only school which counts; only it plunders the universe for the logic of the great traditions, only it is full of life.