Theophile Gautier Quotes

There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink.

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.

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

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

I'm more interested in the quality of the work than its medium.

I truly try to create beauty and reflection and all of that as conscientiously and judiciously and minutely as I can.

I think there's something beautiful about the art of making art, and it just will live and breathe.

An Edward Povey hangs in my living room and every day I am reminded of his originality, his beauty, and the eternal promise of his craft.

Things have to be beautifully made, even if they are full of fun, fantasy and futility

In building a statue, a sculptor doesn't keep adding clay to his subject. Actually, he keeps chiseling away at the nonessentials until the truth of his creation is revealed without obstruction.

First of all I think that poetry is very noble and I always have with me the sense of the nobility of poetry.

It does not matter whether you paint, sculpt, or make shoes, whether you are a gardener, a farmer, a fisherman, a carpenter-it does not matter. What matters is, are you putting your very soul into what you are creating? Then your creative products have something of the quality of divine.

It is true that all men are created in the image of God, but Christians are supposed to be conscious of that fact, and being conscious of it should recognize the importance of living artistically, aesthetically, and creatively, as creative creatures of the Creator. If we have been created in the image of an Artist, then we should look for expressions of artistry, and be sensitive to beauty, responsive to what has been created for us

Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas. But wood can translate ideas, too. You have wood and then you get a chair. Some ideas are for different things.

When you write ,it's like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring then unity.

I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.

Writing music is like tasting the sky. It keeps me dreaming in color.

Every garden-maker should be an artist along his own lines. That is the only possible way to create a garden, irrespective of size or wealth.

As polishing expresses the vein in marble, and grain in wood, so music brings out what of heroic lurks anywhere. The hero is the sole patron of music.

[Drawing] and making things was all we ever did. My brother and I built the entire New York World's Fair of 1939 in miniature out of wax. The floor of our room was covered with little waxen buildings. Nobody else could come in.

Those who create beauty are also they who possess it.

To be an artist is first to be a manual laborer.

The first thing you've got to do is know your craft, and then you can do something else with it.

If you write beautifully, you write beautifully, that's all.

I'm a sponge, the more I absorb, the more I am able to articulate my vision, as artists do, like Picasso. I'm an artist in that light. I went from being an artist to an artiste.