Logo
Quote by Gustave Flaubert
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot att

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

Other quotes by Gustave Flaubert

I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key. – Gustave Flaubert

Category:
alone
Author
Gustave Flaubert
Read Quote

Human speech is like a cracked cauldron on which we bang out tunes that make bears dance, when what we want is to move the stars to pity. – Gustave Flaubert

Category:
Language
Author
Gustave Flaubert
Read Quote

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. – Gustave Flaubert

Category:
Art
Author
Gustave Flaubert
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Art
category

When art wins, everyone wins. – Jerry Saltz

Category:
Art

I dont watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself. – Stephen Fry

Category:
Art

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

Category:
Art

A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind. – Clive Bell

Category:
Art

Random Quotes

Having had that experience… I think, what modern culture wants to see is the relationship with the woman. I dont think you can tell a story on film nowadays where the woman simply is there for the man when he decides to settle down. – Tom Selleck

Category:
relationship

For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust ones friends. – Aeschylus

Category:
Trust

The population forecast for the United States in 1970 is 170 million. The population forecast for Russia alone in 1970 is 251 million. The implications are clear. – Emanuel Celler

Category:
alone

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form. – Toni Morrison

Category:
Art