Literature has nothing to do with usefulness; the most useful place in any house is the toilet. - Theophile Gautier
Word The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist. - Theophile Gautier
Friendship 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
The cat makes himself the companion of your hours of solitude, melancholy and toil. - Theophile Gautier
Words Care Art Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution. - Theophile Gautier
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. - John F. Kennedy
I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters. - Sylvester Stallone
Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all. - Thomas Fuller