Life Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. Gustave Flaubert 18
Love Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings. Gustave Flaubert 14
Music 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 18
Future 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... Gustave Flaubert 17
Freedom Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom. Gustave Flaubert 21
Opinion Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of... Gustave Flaubert 16