Logo
Quote by Gustave Flaubert
You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies,

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

Other quotes by Gustave Flaubert

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. – Gustave Flaubert

Category:
work
Author
Gustave Flaubert
Read Quote

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

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith, faith and freedom. – Gustave Flaubert

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

Robert Rauschenberg was not a giant of American art he was the giant. No American created so many aesthetic openings for so many artists. – Jerry Saltz

Category:
Art

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love – to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved. – Isadora Duncan

Category:
Art

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent. – John Ruskin

Category:
Art

Great art picks up where nature ends. – Marc Chagall

Category:
Art

Random Quotes

Whenever the people are for gay marriage or medical marijuana or assisted suicide, suddenly the will of the people goes out the window. – Bill Maher

Category:
Marriage

Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. – Betty Smith

Category:
Attitude

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars. – Richard M. Nixon

Category:
Change

Why has not anyone seen that fossils alone gave birth to a theory about the formation of the earth, that without them, no one would have ever dreamed that there were successive epochs in the formation of the globe. – Georges Cuvier

Category:
alone