Source: Memoirs of a Madman
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Famous Gustave Flaubert Quotes
Source: Bouvard and Pécuchet
Source: The letters
“The artist must manage to make posterity believe that he never existed.”
“Do not imagine you can exorcise what oppresses you in life by giving vent to it in art.”
Source: The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857
Source: Bouvard and Pécuchet
Source: Selected Letters
“Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.”
Source: The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857
“Of all lies, art is the least untrue.”
Source: The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857
“The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.”
“One mustn't always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without form.”
“The cult of art gives pride; one never has too much of it.”