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    French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic

    Pierre Jules Theophile Gautierwas a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic.
    While an ardent defender of Romanticism, Gautier’s work is difficult to classify and remains a point of reference for many subsequent literary traditions such as Parnassianism, Symbolism, Decadence and Modernism.

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    About the Theophile Gautier

    Pierre Jules Theophile Gautierwas a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic.

    While an ardent defender of Romanticism, Gautier’s work is difficult to classify and remains a point of reference for many subsequent literary traditions such as Parnassianism, Symbolism, Decadence and Modernism. He was widely esteemed by writers as disparate as Balzac, Baudelaire, the Goncourt brothers, Flaubert, Pound, Eliot, James, Proust and Wilde.

    19 Quotes by Theophile Gautier

    1. 1.

      If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave.

      Theophile Gautier

      French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic

    2. 2.

      What I write is not for little girls.

      Theophile Gautier

      French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic

    3. 3.

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

      Theophile Gautier

      French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic

    4. 4.

      Eyes so transparent that through them the soul is seen.

      Theophile Gautier

      French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic

    5. 5.

      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

      French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic

    6. 6.

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

      Theophile Gautier

      French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic

    7. 7.

      Books follow morals, and not morals books.

      Theophile Gautier

      French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic

    8. 8.

      I am one of those for whom superfluity is a necessity.

      Theophile Gautier

      French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic

    9. 9.

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

      Theophile Gautier

      French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic

    10. 10.

      The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn’t exist.

      Theophile Gautier

      French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic

    11. 11.

      Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living.

      Theophile Gautier

      French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic

    12. 12.

      I was born to travel and write verse.

      Theophile Gautier

      French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic

    13. 13.

      Sooner barbarity than boredom.

      Theophile Gautier

      French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic

    14. 14.

      Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

      Theophile Gautier

      French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic

    15. 15.

      I am a man for whom the outside world exists.

      Theophile Gautier

      French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic

    16. 16.

      You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet.

      Theophile Gautier

      French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic

    17. 17.

      A cat will be your friend, but never your slave.

      Theophile Gautier

      French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic

    18. 18.

      The cat is a dilettante in fur.

      Theophile Gautier

      French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic

    19. 19.

      To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.

      Theophile Gautier

      French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic