Quotes by Théophile Gautier, Émaux et Camées

“For Art alone is great:The bust survives the state, The crown the potentate.”

“Things perish. Gods have passed.But song sublimely castShall citadels outlast.”

“And of a Sunday swarm the folkUnder the honeysuckle vine, Quaffing, the while they talk and smoke, The sun, the melody, the wine.”