Our busy age does not always have time t... by Theophile Gautier | We Heart Quotes

Art poet Theatre journalist playwright

Our busy age does not always have time to read, but it always has time to look.

- Theophile Gautier

Other quotes by Theophile Gautier

Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist.

- 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

Literature has nothing to do with usefulness; the most useful place in any house is the toilet.

- Theophile Gautier

Man World

I am a man for whom the outside world exists.

- Theophile Gautier

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

- Theophile Gautier

Work

Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel.

- Theophile Gautier

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