Theophile Gautier Quotes - 9quotes.com

To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.
Written by Theophile Gautier
If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave.
Written by Theophile Gautier
The cat is a dilettante in fur.
Written by Theophile Gautier
It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.
Written by Theophile Gautier
Eyes so transparent that through them the soul is seen.
Written by Theophile Gautier
Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
Written by Theophile Gautier
What I write is not for little girls.
Written by Theophile Gautier
I am a man for whom the outside world exists.
Written by Theophile Gautier
Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel.
Written by Theophile Gautier
A cat will be your friend, but never your slave.
Written by Theophile Gautier
Sooner barbarity than boredom.
Written by Theophile Gautier
I was born to travel and write verse.
Written by Theophile Gautier
Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living.
Written by Theophile Gautier
Books follow morals, and not morals books.
Written by Theophile Gautier
Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist.
Written by Theophile Gautier
The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist.
Written by Theophile Gautier
Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.
Written by Theophile Gautier
I am one of those for whom superfluity is a necessity.
Written by Theophile Gautier
You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet.
Written by Theophile Gautier

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