Theophile Gautier Quotes

"Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel."
- Theophile Gautier
(Related: Work)

"What I write is not for little girls."
- Theophile Gautier
(Related: Girls)

"To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind."
- Theophile Gautier
(Related: Love, Heart, Mind)

"The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist."
- Theophile Gautier
(Related: Word)

"The cat is a dilettante in fur."
- Theophile Gautier

"Sooner barbarity than boredom."
- Theophile Gautier
(Related: Boredom)

"It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly."
- Theophile Gautier
(Related: Friendship)

"If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave."
- Theophile Gautier
(Related: Friend, Affection, Will)

"I am one of those for whom superfluity is a necessity."
- Theophile Gautier
(Related: Necessity)

"You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet."
- Theophile Gautier
(Related: Satisfaction)

"Eyes so transparent that through them the soul is seen."
- Theophile Gautier
(Related: Soul, Eyes)

"Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living."
- Theophile Gautier
(Related: Body, Living)

"Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign."
- Theophile Gautier
(Related: God, Chance, Want)

"Books follow morals, and not morals books."
- Theophile Gautier
(Related: Books, Morals)

"Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution."
- Theophile Gautier
(Related: Art, Beauty, Care, Choice, Detail, Execution, Invention, Words)

"Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist."
- Theophile Gautier
(Related: Artist, Man, World)

"A cat will be your friend, but never your slave."
- Theophile Gautier
(Related: Friend, Will)

"I was born to travel and write verse."
- Theophile Gautier
(Related: Travel)