Remy de Gourmont Quotes
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Art is the accomplice of love.
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Since art is the expression of beauty and beauty can be understood only in the form of the material elements of the true idea it contains, art has become almost uniquely feminine. Beauty is woman, and also art is woman.
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Demons are like obedient dogs; they come when they are called.
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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.
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Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.
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Man is the inventor of stupidity.
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Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction
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Science is the only truth and it is the great lie. It knows nothing, and people think it knows everything. It is misrepresented. People think that science is electricity, automobilism, and dirigible balloons. It is something very different. It is life devouring itself. It is the sensibility transformed into intelligence. It is the need to know stifling the need to live. It is the genius of knowledge vivisecting the vital genius.
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Cliche refers to words, commonplace to ideas. Cliche describes the form or the letter, commonplace the substance or spirit. To confuse them is to confuse the thought with the expression of the thought. The cliche is immediately perceivable; the commonplace very often escapes notice if decked out in original dress. There are few examples, in any literature, of new ideas expressed in original form. The most critical mind must often be content with one or the other of these pleasures, only too happy when it is not deprived of both at once, which is not too rarely the case.
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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?
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Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.
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Man has made use of his intelligence; he invented stupidity.
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A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble
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The woman who loves always smells good.
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Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time
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In order to understand life it is not only necessary not to be indifferent to men, but not to be indifferent to flocks, to trees. One should be indifferent to nothing.
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Art is the flower of life and, as seed, it gives back life.
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Money is the sign of liberty. To curse money is to curse liberty- to curse life, which is nothing, if it be not free.
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Nothing exists except by virtue of a disequilibrium, an injustice. All existence is a theft paid for by other existences; no life flowers except on a cemetery.
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Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war.
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Born of the sensibility, art sows and creates life in its turn.
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The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.
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Most men who rail against women are railing at one woman only.
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Women are the simple, and poets the superior, artisans of language... the intervention of grammarians is almost always bad.
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Man begins by loving love and ends by loving a woman. Woman begins by loving a man and ends by loving love.
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God is not all that exists. God is all that does not exist.
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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.
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Art includes everything which stimulates the desire to live; science includes everything which sharpens the desire to know. Art, even the most disinterested, the most disembodied, is the auxiliary of life.
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An imbecile is never bored: he contemplates himself.
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Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.
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