The most fitting occupation for a civili... by Theophile Gautier | We Heart Quotes

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The most fitting occupation for a civilized man is to do nothing.

- Theophile Gautier

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Words Care Art

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

- 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

Travel

I was born to travel and write verse.

- Theophile Gautier

Cats are the tigers of us poor devils.

- Theophile Gautier

Boredom

Sooner barbarity than boredom.

- Theophile Gautier

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

- Theophile Gautier

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