flaubert Quotes

“I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.”

“Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.”

“Of all lies, art is the least untrue.”

“The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.”

“A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.”

“Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith, faith and freedom.”

“The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.”

“Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith, faith and freedom.”

“The future is the worst thing about the present.”

“The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful one must sense him everywhere but never see him.”