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
art cities high-art
High art alone is eternal and the bust outlives the city.
men artist doe
Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist.
art choices details
Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.
beauty art tasks
To extract beauty from one's own milieu is one of the most difficult tasks of art.
art philosophical purpose
The arts teach and moralise by their beauty alone, not by translating a philosophical or social formula. For the truly artistic person, painting has itself as it's purpose, which is quite enough.
art imagination desire
[Great artists] do not copy what they see, but what they desire.
chance god pseudonym
Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
A cat will be your friend, but never your slave.
mean poet made
The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist.
gratitude heart cutting
What well-bred woman would refuse her heart to a man who had just saved her life? Not one; and gratitude is a short cut which speedily leads to love.
heart passion men
Whatever may have been said of the satiety of pleasure and of the disgust which usually follows passion, any man who has anything of a heart and who is not wretchedly and hopelessly blasé feels his love increased by his happiness, and very often the best way to retain a lover ready to leave is to give one's self up to him without reserve.
body lice desert
Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living.
friendship philosophical cat
It is a difficult matter to gain the affection of a cat. He is a philosophical, methodical animal, tenacious of his own habits, fond of order and neatness, and disinclined to extravagant sentiment. He will be your friend, if he finds you worthy of friendship, but not your slave.
girl writing littles
What I write is not for little girls.