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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.

Source: The Cubist Painters, On Painting (1913).
-- Guillaume Apollinaire, (Aug 26 1880-1918), French novelist, critic; He was an avant-garde writer who coined the term surrealism, promoted early Cubist painters.

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