Best quotes by Gustave Flaubert on Work

Checkout quotes by Gustave Flaubert on Work

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

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• ‟ 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 artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.

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• ‟ The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.

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

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• ‟ I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.

  - Gustave Flaubert