Art is beauty, the perpetual invention o... by Theophile Gautier | We Heart Quotes

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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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The cat makes himself the companion of your hours of solitude, melancholy and toil.

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No one is truly dead until they are no longer loved.

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

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

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Fortune loves to give bedroom slippers to people with wooden legs, and gloves to those with no hands.

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Modesty was made for the ugly.

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