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

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All ones inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry. – Gustave Flaubert

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Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I cant bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd. – David Herbert Lawrence

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The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute. – Charles Baudelaire

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Painting is easy when you dont know how, but very difficult when you do. – Edgar Degas

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