Quote of Guillaume Apollinaire - Geometry is to the plastic arts...
Biography - Guillaume Apollinaire:
Born: 1880 - Died: 1918
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: Italy
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: Italy
Geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer.
Translation
(French, German)
See also...
Quotes about art:
The more I think about it the more I feel that there’s nothing more genuinely artistic than to love people.
I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'
Quotes for: writer
The function of a writer is to call a spade a spade. If words are sick, it is up to us to cure them.
It is a pity that one cannot see the learned entrails of authors so as to discover what they have eaten.
Guillaume Apollinaire also said...
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