Gourmont

Famous quotes containing the word gourmont:

    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.
    —Rémy De Gourmont (1858–1915)

    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.
    —Rémy De Gourmont (1858–1915)

    The whole effort of a sincere man is to erect his personal impressions into laws.
    —Rémy De Gourmont (1858–1915)