Art Quote by Gustave Flaubert Download Open image ““The artist must manage to make posterity believe that he never existed.”” — Gustave Flaubert ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artists Writers Writing
“Every artist thus keeps within himself a single source which nourishes during his lifetime what he is and what he says.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Many artists, even the greatest ones, are not sure of their own existence. So they search for proof, they judge, they condemn. It strengthens… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Any artist who has ever created something worthwhile has done so by staying true to himself. You can't do it any other way.” — Jerrod Edson Copy Share Image
“No genuine artist views himself as superior in essence to others.” — Laurence G. Boldt Copy Share Image
“The artist's job is not to succumb to despair, but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existance” — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“An artist does not create the way he lives, he lives the way he creates.” — Jean Lescure Copy Share Image
“. . . No matter how screwed up the artist might be, there's still the chance that they can produce art that people like… — Charles Martin Copy Share Image
“For an artist, there's nothing better than having the opportunity to create a world that doesn't- but could- exist.” — Christophe Lautrette Copy Share Image
“It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“An artist has got to get acquainted with himself just as much as he can. It is no easy job, for it is not… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
As for the piano, the faster her fingers flew over it, the more he marveled. She struck the keys with aplomb and ran from… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“When one does something, one must do it wholly and well. Those bastard existences where you sell suet all day and write poetry at… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“But her life was as cold as an attic facing north; and boredom, like a silent spider, was weaving its web in the shadows,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
