Gustave Flaubert Quotes About Art

• El arte de escribir es el arte de descubrir lo que uno cree.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Inspiración, Vida, Arte

• Of all lies, art is the least untrue.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Arte, Mentira, Arte Es

  Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller (1980). "The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857", p.52, Harvard University Press

• You don’t make art out of good intentions.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Art, Good Intentions, Intention

• I am an obscure and patient pearl-fisherman who dives into the deepest waters and comes up with empty hands and a blue face. Some fatal attraction draws me down into the abysses of thought, down into those innermost recesses which never cease to fascinate the strong. I shall spend my life gazing at the ocean of art, where others voyage or fight; and from time to time I’ll entertain myself by diving for those green and yellow shells that nobody will want. So I shall keep them for myself and cover the walls of my hut with them.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Art, Strong, Wall

• One mustn't always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without form.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Art, Believe, Feelings

• Do not imagine you can exorcise what oppresses you in life by giving vent to it in art.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Art, Giving, Imagine

  Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller (1980). “The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857”, p.14, Harvard University Press

• You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Art, Men, Numbers

  Letter to Louise Colet, 14 June 1853

• Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Art, Bears, Done

• Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Art, Literature, Politeness

  Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller (1980). “The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857”, p.220, Harvard University Press

• 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

  Art, Views, Style

• On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Art, Ordinary, World

  Gustave Flaubert (1976). “Bouvard and Pécuchet”, Penguin Books

• The cult of art gives pride; one never has too much of it.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Art, Pride, Giving

• Un hombre es crítico cuando no puede ser artista, del mismo modo que un hombre se convierte en informador cuando no puede ser soldado.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Arte, Hombres, Soldado

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

  Gustave Flaubert

  Art, Atheism, Unhappy

• The morality of art is in its very beauty.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Arte, Filosofía, Historia

• Tomé el Arthur de Eugene Sue de la sala de lectura. Es indescriptible, suficiente para hacerte vomitar. Hay que leerlo para darse cuenta de lo lamentables que son el dinero, el éxito y el público. La literatura se ha vuelto consumista. Escupe y babea, cubre sus ampollas con pomada y esparadrapo, y se ha quedado calva de tanto peinarse. Haría falta un Cristo del arte para curar a este leproso.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Arte, Lectura, Escritura

• A medida que la humanidad se perfecciona, el hombre se degrada. Cuando todo se reduzca al mero contrapeso de los intereses económicos, ¿qué lugar quedará para la virtud? Cuando la Naturaleza haya sido tan subyugada que haya perdido todas sus formas originales, ¿dónde quedarán las artes plásticas? Y así sucesivamente. Mientras tanto, las cosas se pondrán muy turbias.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Art, Money, Mean

• What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Art, Anger, Laughing

  Gustave Flaubert (1953). “Selected letters”

• What I would like to write is a book about nothing, a book without exterior attachments, which would be held together by the innerforce of its style, as the earth without support is held in the air--a book that would have almost no subject or at least in which the subject would be almost invisible.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Arte, Libro, Escritura

• The finest works of art are those in which there is the least matter. The closer expression comes to thought, the more the word clings to the idea and disappears, the more beautiful the work of art.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Beautiful, Art, Thoughtful

• Be orderly and disciplined in daily life, like a good bourgeois, so that I might be wild and violent in my art.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Art, Might, Daily Life

• Hay en mí, en términos literarios, dos caracteres distintos: uno al que le gusta rugir, el lirismo, elevarse, con todas las sonoridades de la frase y las cumbres del pensamiento; y otro que escarba y rasca en busca de la verdad todo lo que puede, que está tan interesado en los pequeños hechos como en los grandes, que le gustaría hacerte sentir materialmente las cosas que reproduce.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Art, Taken, Character

• Each dream finds at last its form; there is a drink for every thirst, and love for every heart. And there is no better way to spend your life than in the unceasing preoccupation of an idea--of an ideal.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Sueño, Arte, Ideas

• I had, as I told you, a great passion while still almost a child. When it was over, I divided myself in two, placing on one side the soul I kept for Art, and on the other, my body, which would have to fend for itself.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Love, Art, Children

• Reveal art; conceal the artist.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Art, Artist, Revelations

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