To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality.
Guillaume ApollinaireIn this mirror, I am enclosed a live and real as you. Imagine angels and not like the reflections.
Guillaume ApollinaireCome to the edge.' 'We can't. We're afraid.' 'Come to the edge.' 'We can't. We will fall!' 'Come to the edge.' And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.
Guillaume ApollinaireThe new painters do not propose, any more than did their predecessors, to be geometers. But it may be said that geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer. Today, scholars no longer limit themselves to the three dimensions of Euclid. The painters have been lead quite naturally, one might say by intuition, to preoccupy themselves with the new possibilities of spatial measurement which, in the language of the modern studios, are designated by the term fourth dimension.
Guillaume Apollinaire