Famous quotes containing the word gourmont:
“If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be—not understood, but divined.”
—Rémy De Gourmont (1858–1915)
“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)
“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.”
—Rémy De Gourmont (1858–1915)