Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" One mustn't always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without form. "

Gustave Flaubert

Related Quotes:

" Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry. "

Gustave Flaubert

" Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living. "

Gustave Flaubert

" One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels. "

Gustave Flaubert

" It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs. "

Gustave Flaubert

" Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it. "

Gustave Flaubert

" Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars. "

Gustave Flaubert

" The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens. "

Gustave Flaubert

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

Gustave Flaubert

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

Gustave Flaubert

" The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet. "

Gustave Flaubert

" Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry. "

Gustave Flaubert

" One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought! "

Gustave Flaubert

" One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes. "

Gustave Flaubert

" Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work. "

Gustave Flaubert

" Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live. "

Gustave Flaubert

" Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings. "

Gustave Flaubert

" I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity. "

Gustave Flaubert

" There is no truth. There is only perception. "

Gustave Flaubert

" I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests. "

Gustave Flaubert

" To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. "

Gustave Flaubert

" The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe. "

Gustave Flaubert

" What is the beautiful, if not the impossible. "

Gustave Flaubert

" You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it. "

Gustave Flaubert

" The cult of art gives pride; one never has too much of it. "

Gustave Flaubert

" One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us. "

Gustave Flaubert

" Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion. "

Gustave Flaubert

" All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry. "

Gustave Flaubert

" Read in order to live. "

Gustave Flaubert

" The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest. "

Gustave Flaubert

" Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough. "

Gustave Flaubert