Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. – Gustave Flaubert
The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest. – Gustave Flaubert

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. – Gustave Flaubert
The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest. – Gustave Flaubert
Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am out walking by myself, it seems to me that the rain is falling through my heart and causing it to crumble into ruins. – Gustave Flaubert
All ones inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry. – Gustave Flaubert