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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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There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things. – Gustave Flaubert

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Human speech is like a cracked cauldron on which we bang out tunes that make bears dance, when what we want is to move the stars to pity. – Gustave Flaubert

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The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens. – Gustave Flaubert

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I think people should be given a test much like drivers tests as to whether theyre capable of being parents! Its an art form. I talk a lot. And I think a lot. And I draw a lot. But never in a million years would I have been a parent. Thats just work thats too hard. – Maurice Sendak

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Photography is a major force in explaining man to man. – Edward Steichen

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Art

Land really is the best art. – Andy Warhol

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Ive never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadnt made money with it. – Laurie Anderson

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I saw Richard Linklaters film Slacker for my twenty-first birthday. That was the moment when it all seemed possible. This guy gave me hope. – Kevin Smith

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Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it. – Victor Hugo

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The farther one gets into the wilderness, the greater is the attraction of its lonely freedom. – Theodore Roosevelt

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