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Art poet journalist French playwright

Sooner barbarity than boredom.

- Theophile Gautier

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Friend Will

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

- Theophile Gautier

It is gentle manners which prove so irresistible in women.

- Theophile Gautier
Words Care Art

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

- Theophile Gautier

Good heavens! What a foolish thing is this pretended perfectibility of the human race which is continually being dinned into our ears!

- Theophile Gautier

A cat will lie the whole evening on your knee, purring and happy in your society.

- Theophile Gautier
Girls

What I write is not for little girls.

- Theophile Gautier

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You find me at work; excuse the dust on my blouse. I sculpt my marble myself.

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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

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