Satisfaction You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet. - Theophile Gautier
Work Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel. - Theophile Gautier
A cat will lie the whole evening on your knee, purring and happy in your society. - Theophile Gautier
The cat makes himself the companion of your hours of solitude, melancholy and toil. - Theophile Gautier
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 arts teach and moralise by their beauty alone, not by translating a philosophical or social formula. For the truly artistic person, painting has itself as it's purpose, which is quite enough. - 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