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