Top 304 Quotes & Sayings by Gustave Flaubert - Page 6

Art is nothing without form.

It is an excellent habit to look at things as so many symbols.

I do not like to "interest" the public with myself.

If you participate in life, you don’t see it clearly: you suffer from it too much or enjoy it too much. The artist, to my way of thinking, is a monstrosity, something outside nature. All the misfortunes Providence inflicts on him come from his stubborness in denying that maxim.