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Quote by Gustave Flaubert
Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith

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

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Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars. – Gustave Flaubert

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The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family. – Gustave Flaubert

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To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art – that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts. – Charles Baudelaire

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Willem de Kooning is generally credited for coming out of the painterly gates strong in the forties, revolutionizing art and abstraction and reaching incredible heights by the early fifties, and then tailing off. – Jerry Saltz

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I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist. – Henry Adams

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Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. – Laurence J. Peter

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