Flaubert

Famous quotes containing the word flaubert:

“One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.”
—Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)

“I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.”
—Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)

“One mustn’t always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without form.”
—Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)