Books follow morals, and not morals books.

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• Theophile Gautier:

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

• Theophile Gautier:

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

• Theophile Gautier:

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

• Theophile Gautier:

  I am one of those for whom superfluity is a necessity.

• Theophile Gautier:

  You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that y

• Jacques-Louis David:

  In the arts the way in which an idea is rendered, and the manner in which it is expressed, is much

• Jacques-Louis David:

  If the work is poor, the public taste will soon do it justice. And the author, reaping neither glor

• Mary Shelley:

  But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exh

• Mary Shelley:

  Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.

• Mary Shelley:

  My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my de