Guillaume Apollinaire Quotes

My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love.

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

Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.

The writer, the poet, the novelist, are all creators. This does not mean that they invent language; it means that they use language to create beauty, ideas, images. This is why we cannot do without them.

Wonder and awe are the diet of the artist and without them the world would be far less meaningful to us than it is.

Art and life are inseparable.

Artists make our lives livable and enjoyable.

At moments we are all artists.

The eye is the best of artists.

Idea and experience will never coincide in the center; only through art and action are they united.

Artistic vision is having the clarity to fall in love with what you see.

Artists are people who create beauty. That's the bottom line.

Those people who recognise that imagination is reality's master, we call sages, and those who act upon it, we call artists.

To be an artist, you don't have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It's just a way of living. It has to do with paying attention, remembering, filtering what you see and answering back, participating in life.

Art is a sense of magic.

I am always looking for ideas, whether it is in art on the street or in my world travels. It comes to me randomly and unexpectedly.

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.

I was brought up feeling that art is a very important part of one's life. It's something that I not only enjoy, it's something I can share with others.

The arts are weapons of understanding and weapons of happiness.

If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.

I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.

Art is about the messy and marvelous business of coming to your senses - and also, to the senses of the world.

The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory.