Quote

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

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
Nothing
Arts
Believe
Feeling
Always
Literature
Feelings
Art
Form
Everything
Without
Mustn

More quotes by Gustave Flaubert

Image
By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming an idiot oneself.
Gustave Flaubert
Image
My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
Gustave Flaubert
Image
The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.
Gustave Flaubert
Image
Talent is a long patience.
Gustave Flaubert
Image
The principal thing in the world is to keep the soul aloft.
Gustave Flaubert
Image
Stupidity is an immovable object: you can't try to attack it wiithout being broken by it.
Gustave Flaubert
Image
Stupidity is something unshakable nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
Gustave Flaubert
Image
I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.
Gustave Flaubert
Image
What baffled him was that there should be all this fuss about something so simple as love.
Gustave Flaubert
Image
Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.
Gustave Flaubert
Image
How you measure the performance of your managers directly affects the way they act.
Gustave Flaubert
Image
Writing this book I am like a man playing the piano with lead balls attached to his knuckles.
Gustave Flaubert
Image
A thing derided is a thing dead a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
Gustave Flaubert
Image
There are some men whose only mission among others is to act as intermediaries one crosses them like bridges and keeps going.
Gustave Flaubert
Image
Criticism occupies the lowest place in the literary hierarchy: as regards form, almost always and as regards moral value, incontestably. It comes after rhyming games and acrostics, which at least require a certain inventiveness.
Gustave Flaubert
Image
COLD. Healthier than heat.
Gustave Flaubert
Image
I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.
Gustave Flaubert
Image
What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
Gustave Flaubert
Image
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
Gustave Flaubert
Image
It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs.
Gustave Flaubert