Quote by Gustave Flaubert
Of all lies, art is the least untrue. - Gustave Flaubert

Of all lies, art is the least untrue. – 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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I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key. – Gustave Flaubert

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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

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While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality… true art lies in a reality that is felt. – Odilon Redon

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In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character there was nothing particularly new about this – death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper. – Terry Pratchett

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What is art? Nature concentrated. – Honore de Balzac

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