Guillaume Apollinaire Men Quotations

Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.

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.

When man wanted to make a machine that would walk he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg.

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

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.

When man resolved to imitate walking, he invented the wheel, which does not look like a leg. In doing this, he was practicing surrealism without knowing it.