Quotes by
Théophile Gautier |
1811-1872 , French poet & writer
French poet, dramatist, novelist, short-story writer, journalist and critic. | 15 quotes | 1,300 visits |
Quotations
| • | Art for art’s sake! ( l'art pour l'art – used in the preface to his 1835 book, Mademoiselle de Maupin.) 7 |
| • | Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when He did not want to sign. 6 |
| • | To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind. 5 |
| • | To be born is to have commenced to die. 5 |
| • | Literature has nothing to do with usefulness; the most useful place in any house is the toilet. 3 |
| • | Only that which serves no end is beautiful; everything useful is ugly. |
| • | Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel. |
| • | The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn’t exist. |
| • | Brevity never fatigues; therefore, brevity is always a welcome guest. |
| • | I am one of those for whom superfluity is a necessity. |
| • | Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution. |
| • | The most fitting occupation for a civilized man is to do nothing. |
| • | No one is truly dead until they are no longer loved. |
| • | It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal, one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly. |
| • | Your eyes so transparent that through them one sees your lucent soul. |
