Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.
- Theophile Gautier
Beauty, Art, Execution, Perpetual
To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.
- Theophile Gautier
Love, Mind, Admire, Love Is
Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living.
- Theophile Gautier
Living, Critical, Which, Corpses
The cat is a dilettante in fur.
- Theophile Gautier
Pet, Cat, Fur, Dilettante
Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel.
- Theophile Gautier
Work, Process, Yes, Verse
I was born to travel and write verse.
- Theophile Gautier
Travel, Born, I Was Born, Verse
Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
- Theophile Gautier
Chance, Want, Sign, Pseudonym
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
Friendship, Obtain, Does, Philosophical
If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave.
- Theophile Gautier
Never, Will, Slave, Affection
Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist.
- Theophile Gautier
World, Artist, His, Inner World
What I write is not for little girls.
- Theophile Gautier
Little, Write, I Write, Little Girls
I am a man for whom the outside world exists.
- Theophile Gautier
I Am, World, Outside World, Exists
Eyes so transparent that through them the soul is seen.
- Theophile Gautier
Soul, Through, Them, Transparent
Books follow morals, and not morals books.
- Theophile Gautier
Follow, Books, Morals
You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet.
- Theophile Gautier
Been, Critic, Established, Satisfaction
The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist.
- Theophile Gautier
Exist, Which, Means, Poet
I am one of those for whom superfluity is a necessity.
- Theophile Gautier
I Am, Whom, Am, Necessity
A cat will be your friend, but never your slave.
- Theophile Gautier
Never, Cat, Will, Slave
Sooner barbarity than boredom.
- Theophile Gautier
Sooner, Than, Boredom
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