Artist Quotes by Theophile Gautier

8 Artist quotes by Theophile Gautier

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Theophile Gautier’s thoughts on the artist appear in eight polished sentences that read like a literary salon, each one reflecting his cultivated aesthetic.

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Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.

Theophile Gautier

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Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist.

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The arts teach and moralise by their beauty alone, not by translating a philosophical or social formula. For the truly artistic person,…

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High art alone is eternal and the bust outlives the city.

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[Great artists] do not copy what they see, but what they desire.

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To extract beauty from one's own milieu is one of the most difficult tasks of art.

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“For Art alone is great: The bust survives the state, The crown the potentate.”

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Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel.

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It is gentle manners which prove so irresistible in women.

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“This apparent hurly-burly and disorder turn out, after all, to reproduce real life with its fantastic ways more accurately than the most carefully studied…

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