Gustave Flaubert quotes

Of all lies, art is the least untrue.

One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.

Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.

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

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

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

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

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

The future is the worst thing about the present.

Read in order to live.

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

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

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.

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

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

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

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

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

Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.

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.

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

I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

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.

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

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

There is no truth. There is only perception.

Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.

One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.

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

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

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.