Remy de Gourmont Quotes about Art

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Art is the accomplice of love.

Remy de Gourmont

Art, Art Is, Accomplices

Remy de Gourmont (1921). “Decadence and Other Essays on the Culture of Ideas”

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

Remy de Gourmont

Love, Art, Art Is

Remy de Gourmont (1921). “Decadence and Other Essays on the Culture of Ideas”

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.

Remy de Gourmont

Art, Knowledge, Science

"Selections from All His Works".

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.

Remy de Gourmont

Beauty, Art, Expression