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Guillaume Apollinaire
(26 Aug 1880 - 9 Nov 1918)
French poet and art critic who coined the word surrealism, and promoted early Cubist painters. His original name, reflecting his Polish-Italian parentage, was Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzki.
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Science Quotes by Guillaume Apollinaire (2 quotes)
~~[unverified]~~ Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
— Guillaume Apollinaire
Primary source needed. can you help? Seen for example, in Larry Chang, Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual (2006), 353.
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.
— Guillaume Apollinaire
The Cubist Painters: Aesthetic Meditations (1913) translated by Lionel Abel (1970), 13. Quoted in Michele Emmer, The Visual Mind II (2005), 352.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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