Remy de Gourmont Art Quotations

Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.

Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live

Art is the flower of life and, as seed, it gives back life.

Born of the sensibility, art sows and creates life in its turn.

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.

Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live; science, everything that sharpens the desire to know. Art, even the most disinterested, the most disembodied, is the auxiliary of life.

Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.

Art is the accomplice of love.