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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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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry. – Gustave Flaubert

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

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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up. – Jean Cocteau

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There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit. – Ansel Adams

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Art never improves, but… the material of art is never quite the same. – T. S. Eliot

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