Gustave Flaubert Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)
Gustave Flaubert quotes and sayings page 6 (deceased novelist born on Dec 12, 1821). Here's quote # 51 through 60 out of the 71 we have for him.
“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.”
“What is the beautiful, if not the impossible.”
“Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.”
“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.”
“Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.”
“One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.”
“As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.”
“Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.”
“Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.”
“Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.”
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