Gustave Flaubert Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.”

“Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.”

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

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

“Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.”

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

“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.”

“The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.”

“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.”

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