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

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Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist. – Franz Liszt

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution. – Paul Gauguin

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What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty? – Sarah Bernhardt

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