Quote

Of all lies, art is the least untrue.

Gustave Flaubert

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Gustave Flaubert
Age: 58 †
Born: 1821
Born: December 12
Died: 1880
Died: May 8
Novelist
Writer
Flaubert
Untrue
Lies
Least
Lying
Art

More quotes by Gustave Flaubert

Image
Love, to her, was something hat comes suddenly, like a blinding flash of lightening - a heaven-sent storm hurled into life, uprooting it, sweeping every will before it like a leaf, engulfing all feelings.
Gustave Flaubert
Image
Writing this book I am like a man playing the piano with lead balls attached to his knuckles.
Gustave Flaubert
Image
I like prostitution. My heart has never failed to pound at the sight of one of those provocatively dressed women walking in the rain under the gaslamps, just as the sight of monks in their robes and girdles touches some ascetic, hidden corner of my soul.
Gustave Flaubert
Image
Women want you to deceive them: they force you to, and if you resist, they blame you.
Gustave Flaubert
Image
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
Image
Thought is the greatest of pleasures —pleasure itself is only imagination—have you ever enjoyed anything more than your dreams?
Gustave Flaubert
Image
The most important quality of art and its aim is illusion emotion, which is often obtained by certain sacrifices of poetic detail, is something else entirely and of an inferior order.
Gustave Flaubert
Image
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
Gustave Flaubert
Image
There comes a point at which you stop writing and think all the more
Gustave Flaubert
Image
Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
Gustave Flaubert
Image
What baffled him was that there should be all this fuss about something so simple as love.
Gustave Flaubert
Image
Boredom, that silent spider, was spinning its web in the darkness in every corner of her heart.
Gustave Flaubert
Image
And he beholds the moon like a rounded fragment of ice filled with motionless light.
Gustave Flaubert
Image
Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.
Gustave Flaubert
Image
Life must be a constant education one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
Gustave Flaubert
Image
Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.
Gustave Flaubert
Image
The principal thing in the world is to keep the soul aloft.
Gustave Flaubert
Image
What an elder sees sitting the young can't see standing.
Gustave Flaubert
Image
One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.
Gustave Flaubert
Image
Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work.
Gustave Flaubert