Best quotes by Gustave Flaubert on Art

Checkout quotes by Gustave Flaubert on Art

• ‟ 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.

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

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• ‟ Of all lies, art is the least untrue.

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

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

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• ‟ 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.

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

  - Gustave Flaubert