Those horses must have been Spanish jennets, born of mares mated with a zephyr; for they went as swiftly as the wind, and the moon, which had risen at our departure to give us light, rolled through the sky like a wheel detached from its carriage.
Theophile GautierYes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel.
Theophile GautierArt is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.
Theophile Gautier