Remy de Gourmont
Remy de Gourmont
Remy de Gourmontwas a French Symbolist poet, novelist, and influential critic. He was widely read in his era, and an important influence on Blaise Cendrars and Georges Bataille. The spelling Rémy de Gourmont is incorrect, albeit common and used by Ezra Pound in translations of his work...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth4 April 1858
CountryFrance
accomplice aesthetic art favorable longer love man puts reception state
Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.
art flower giving
Art is the flower of life and, as seed, it gives back life.
art born turns
Born of the sensibility, art sows and creates life in its turn.
art desire desire-to-live
Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live
beauty art expression
Since art is the expression of beauty and beauty can be understood only in the form of the material elements of the true idea it contains, art has become almost uniquely feminine. Beauty is woman, and also art is woman.
art knowledge desire
Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live; science, everything that sharpens the desire to know. Art, even the most disinterested, the most disembodied, is the auxiliary of life.
art art-is accomplices
Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.
art art-is accomplices
Art is the accomplice of love.
complex reach within
Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.
discover good hidden knowledge practice
Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.
silence pleasure scoundrels
The pleasure of being a scoundrel can be adequately savored in silence.
men order tree
In order to understand life it is not only necessary not to be indifferent to men, but not to be indifferent to flocks, to trees. One should be indifferent to nothing.
education sensibility
We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.
relationship men rail
Most men who rail against women are railing at one woman only.