Theophile Gautier
Theophile Gautier
Pierre Jules Théophile Gautierwas a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth30 August 1811
CountryFrance
fate hands giving
Fortune loves to give bedroom slippers to people with wooden legs, and gloves to those with no hands.
travel horse moon
Those horses must have been Spanish jennets, born of mares mated with a zephyr; for they went as swiftly as the wind, and the moon, which had risen at our departure to give us light, rolled through the sky like a wheel detached from its carriage.
satisfaction poet critics
You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet.
greatest-love grows
When we love - we grow
cat devil poor
Cats are the tigers of us poor devils.
beautiful process marble
Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel.
art cities high-art
High art alone is eternal and the bust outlives the city.
horse home adventure
The pleasure in traveling consists of the obstacles, the fatigue, and even the danger. What charm can anyone find in an excursion when he is always sure of reaching his destination, of having horses ready waiting for him, a soft bed, an excellent supper, and all the eases and comfort he can enjoy in his own home! One of the great misfortunes of modern life is the want of any sudden surprise, and the absence of all adventure. Everything is so well arranged.
men artist doe
Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist.
beautiful ugly ends
Only that which serves no end is beautiful; everything useful is ugly.
manners gentle prove
It is gentle manners which prove so irresistible in women.
powerful argument persuasive
With all women gentleness is the most persuasive and powerful argument.
men white-man red
White men should exhibit the same insensibility to moral tortures that red men do to physical torments.
art choices details
Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.