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

- Theophile Gautier

No one is truly dead until they are no longer loved.

- Theophile Gautier

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

- Theophile Gautier

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

- Theophile Gautier

Yes I have loved, as no one on earth ever loved, with an insensate and furious love, so violent that I wonder it did not break my heart

- Theophile Gautier

When we love - we grow

- Theophile Gautier

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

- Theophile Gautier

Brevity never fatigues; therefore, brevity is always a welcome guest.

- Theophile Gautier

The most fitting occupation for a civilized man is to do nothing.

- Theophile Gautier