85 Quotes by Remy de Gourmont

Art is the accomplice of love.

To write well, to have style ... is to paint. The master faculty of style is therefore the visual memory. If a writer does not see what he describes-countrysides and figures, movements and gestures-how could he have a style, that is originality?

The ever-present phenomenon ceases to exist for our senses. It was a city dweller, or a prisoner, or a blind man suddenly given his sight, who first noted natural beauty.

Thinking is hard work. One can’t bear burdens and ideas at the same time.

A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble.

Two elements are needed to form a truth – a fact and an abstraction.

Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live.

Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness.

Intelligence is perhaps but a malady, -a beautiful malady; the oysters’s pearl.