80 Quotes by Théophile Gautier

The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist.

A cat will be your friend, but never your slave.

What I write is not for little girls.

I am a man for whom the outside world exists.

Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet.

Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living.

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

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