“Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.”
Hope
“The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.”
ArtAll Quotes by Gustave Flaubert
“The cult of art gives pride one never has too much of it.”
Art“Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.”
Art“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”
Work“There is no truth. There is only perception.”
Truth“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.”
Music“The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.”
Art“Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.”
Success“I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.”
Work“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.”
Art“Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith, faith and freedom.”
Art“I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.”
Nature“The future is the worst thing about the present.”
Future“Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.”
History“Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.”
Age“Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature.”
Nature“The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.”
Family“There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things.”
Art“All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.”
Poetry“The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.”
Art