Theophile Gautier Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

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

  Theophile Gautier

  Art, Choices, Care

• High art alone is eternal and the bust outlives the city.

  Theophile Gautier

  Art, Cities, Eternal

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Pp. 43-45, 1922.

• To extract beauty from one's own milieu is one of the most difficult tasks of art.

  Theophile Gautier

  Beauty, Art, Tasks

• 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

  Art, Philosophical, Purpose

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

  Theophile Gautier

  Art, Imagination, Desire

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