Gustave Flaubert - Best Quotes - Top Quthors

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life and the promise of future accomplishments.

Family

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

Gustave Flaubert

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

Education

Life must be a constant education one must learn everything from speaking to dying.

Gustave Flaubert

Life must be a constant education one must learn everything from speaking to dying.

Diet

The heart like the stomach wants a varied diet.

Gustave Flaubert

The heart like the stomach wants a varied diet.

Hot Quotes

My first love is art and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

In my world history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting a play a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Wushu is a move in Chinese a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues' this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it.

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

Any work that aspires however humbly to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

When thou art at Rome do as they do at Rome.

Rock isn't art it's the way ordinary people talk.

Author: Gustave Flaubert

One must always hope when one is desperate and doubt when one hopes.

Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope even the ruins to which it clings.

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.

One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges France for sun women for love life for happiness.

To be stupid selfish and have good health are three requirements for happiness though if stupidity is lacking all is lost.

The artist must be in his work as God is in creation invisible and all-powerful one must sense him everywhere but never see him.

The future is the worst thing about the present.

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life and the promise of future accomplishments.

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

Life must be a constant education one must learn everything from speaking to dying.

The heart like the stomach wants a varied diet.