“The 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.” MayHas BeensArtSaidMightTodayThreeLanguageTermModernPossibilityLimitsLogicStudiosIntuitionPainterCertaintyUncertaintyReasoningDimensionsScholarFourthPlasticGrammarProposeMeasurementGeometryPredecessorsOntologyNew PossibilitiesSpatialEuclidThree Dimensions Author:Guillaume Apollinaire
“Geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer.” ArtOrderPlasticGrammarGeometry Book:Cubism Source: Cubism
“Without artists, the order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish.” ArtArtistOrderEffects Author:Guillaume Apollinaire
“Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.” MenWantArtArtistInhuman Author:Guillaume Apollinaire
“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.” MenWayGivingArtIdeasWould BeArtistHumanityOrderUniverseBreakEffectsPoetCivilizationSeasonsChaosSpeedVoidCollapseWearyReignSublimeMonotony Author:Guillaume Apollinaire
“Cubism is the art of depicting new wholes with formal elements borrowed not only from the reality of vision, but from that of conception.” ArtRealityVisionElementsConceptionFormalBorrowedCubism Author:Guillaume Apollinaire
“To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality.” ArtPersonalityInstinctPurity Author:Guillaume Apollinaire
“Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.” MenArtArtistInspiringPoetWearyMonotonousMonotonyCreating Art Author:Guillaume Apollinaire
