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Quote by Gustave Flaubert
There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of

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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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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An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere. – Gustave Flaubert

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The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest. – Gustave Flaubert

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Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image. – Aldous Huxley

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It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found. – Wilson Mizner

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The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of arts audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public. – Paul Gauguin

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In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men. – Simone de Beauvoir

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